Posts Tagged ‘China’

Da Zhan Lan: Old-Time Shopping Made Alive

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Beijingers take shopping the same way as athletes take their sports, they can’t be more serious. For several hundred years, Beijingers have been coming back to the same street not far from the Beijing Emperor Hotel for items ranging from paintings to daily-use items.
A testimony to this claim: there is an old Beijing saying goes [...]