The Longbow Papers

We're off to the States for 20 days, starting with a week in Los Angeles, then a week in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, one day in New York, and then a week in a tiny coastal village north of San Francisco. We return to Beijing on August 26.

I do not know how much Internet time I will be able to squeeze in, but I will try. In the meantime, I am putting up a couple of pictures taken by Russ Moses during our latest stroll through a hutong in the Baitasi area of Beijing.

The first one is a favorite of mine. There is a vitality to the photograph that to me is Beijing.



The photograph below serves two purposes. It reminds me how much I have to learn about the old China before it disappears. It also gives my detractors--and they are legion--a perfect "target."

The Chinese characters painted on the wall behind me in American English translate as "This Property is Condemned," or more literally in Chinese as "Tear Down." There is much room for fun and abuse in that juxtaposition.

 

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