Another year, another animal crossed-off the Chinese zodiac, as I slowly but surely move towards completing the whole twelve-year cycle. I shot the above video last night in the square between the Drum Tower and the Bell Tower here in Beijing. It's more... ...full story at Opposite End of China
from Opposite End of China on Mon, Jan 26 2009
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| 26 Jan 09 |
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Chinese New Year Fireworks at Drum & Bell Towers, Beijing »
YouTube video The chaos that is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) in all its Beijing glory! I arrived at the square between the Drum and Bell Towers in Beijing about 30 minutes before midnight, which is what you see in the first shot. The video then cuts to about 2... |
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The Drum Tower Murder - Local Connections. » Shanghai Scrap The man who was murdered on Beijing’s Drum Tower is Todd Bachman, the CEO of a 123-year-old Minnesota-based home and garden center. That might not make much of an impression if you didn’t grow up in the Twin Cities. But if you did, then it was... |
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Welcome Year of the Ox - and Happy New Year! » Blogging For China It should be Chinese New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day throughout most of the world by now … so I just want to wish everyone here a very Happy and Prosperous Year of the OX (牛)! According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Ox symboli... |
| 05 Jan 09 |
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"Happy Niu Year" becomes the most popular blessing » People's Daily On New Year's Day of 2009, "Happy Niu Year," a sentence featuring Chinese and western elements, becomes the most popular new year greeting. "Niu" (Chinese for ox) in the Chinese zodiac happens to have a similar pronunciation to the English word "new,"... |
| 09 Aug 08 |
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Chinese man kills an American tourist, injures another, and leaps to his death at Beijing's Drum Tower » Shanghaiist From AP: A Chinese man attacked the two Americans -- a man and a woman and their Chinese tourist guide -- around 12:20 p.m. on the second level of the Drum Tower, a popular tourist attraction in north Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency... |
| 08 Jul 09 |
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TV tower to top them all » Shanghai Daily THE world's tallest television tower is being constructed in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The new television tower is expected to open next year and will be the most popular scenic spot in the city, a portal... |
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