Rambling around on my way to the Forbidden City. (Listen to this one with the volume on.)
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Friends I made in Tiananmen Square. (I think I had a dozen middle-school kids around me at one point.)
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Tiananmen Square being remarkably square-like. (I’m not sure what I expected, but this really was “just” an open square. And no fire extinguishers in site – find Evan Osnos’ New Yorker blog post for more on this – though, once, a police truck wheezed through.
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Inside the (now-much-less) Forbidden City. The entire event involved fewer non-Chinese tourists than I’d expected.
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Contender for most-accurately named Airbnb I think
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Variations on Beijing breakfast
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at 天安门广场 Tian’anmen Square
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looking down on a fuzzy morning in beijing
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guess the market →
Jon Stewart, in other words, seems to have stumbled upon one of the most underserved media markets in the world.
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in which Uniqlo discovers a repeatable strategy →
The recipe for Japanese retailers to do well in China then: sell great skinny jeans to urban professionals who care more about the cut of their clothes and the brand of their smartphone than national identity. And be quiet about where you come from.
