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Off The Beaten Path: Zhongnanhai.
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  • Easily missed next to its illustrious neighbors, the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, this huge private residential district is home to the elite leadership of the Communist Party. Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping all lived here. If you climb the hill just north of the Forbidden City, you can get a view into Zhongnanhai from above...

    The photo here shows the entrance, flanked by two guards.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Fluxus.
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  • Just near the Starbucks coffee shop at the southern end of Qianhai Lake, you can often see old men engaging in a Chinese form of transitory fluxus art. Using a small bucket of water and a long stick with a sponge tip, these old men create messages on the sidewalk in Chinese characters. After a couple of minutes, the breeze evaporates the text. It was fun watching the small Chinese boy seen in this photo, as he tried to make out what the old man was writing, and what could be the meaning of it all.

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    Comments for Guantanamera about Beijing
    craic Wed Dec 5, 2007 02:06 UTC
     marvellous stuff
    la_beba Tue Sep 18, 2007 04:32 UTC
     Good point! ;o)
    TheWanderingCamel Mon Feb 27, 2006 08:06 UTC
     Fascinating city - I was there too in 02 - I wonder what changes we'd see from that time to now. Cheers - leyle
    VeronicaG Mon Dec 5, 2005 01:34 UTC
     I liked the Temple of Heaven--it was interesting architecturally. The photo opportunity was well taken!
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