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David Strand’s Rickshaw Beijing

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...This would seem to be the sentiment that Beijing, China’s ancient city, would seem to be stating through David Strand’s book, Rickshaw Beijing. Strand sets out to dispel the idea that the perception by most of the worldluding China, of Beijing’s ‘conservative’ and ‘backward’ metropolis was far from correct. In fact, the trolley system which was introduced held major implications for Beijing’s development in many areasluding economically, socially and politically.
Basically, what happened, according to Strand, was that Beijing wore a carefully constructed mask. This mask gave the illusion that Beijing was the old imperial bastion into which no modern convenience would ever take hold. Beijing, with its cosmologically dictated ceremonial and administrative architecture, congested commercial districts, and flat expanses of courtyard residences... Beijing in the 1920's, as a human and physical entity, clearly preserved the past and accommodated the present." Strand, David Rickshaw Beijing California Press 1993, 5-7 In other words,...

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