The Search for a Vanishing Beijing PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Street Photography

The Search for a Vanishing Beijing PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Street PhotographyThe Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets while bringing back to living memory forgotten or overlooked Peking customs, stories and beliefs. The text touches on everything under the sun as the reader walks from Tian An Men Square through the

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and making use of correspondence

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Hegel's predecessors