My Beijing: The Sacred City – New York Times

May 01, 2017

New York Times
My Beijing: The Sacred City
New York Times
When I first came to Beijing in 1984, the city felt dusty and forgotten, a onetime capital of temples and palaces that Mao had vowed — successfully, it seemed — to transform into a landscape of factories and chimneys. Soot penetrated every windowsill

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