eric | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 18 2008 | Beijing, Rem Koolhaus, Ole Scheeren, architecture, thepugetnewsThe new CCTV building in Beijing is crazy cool.
Quoted: As part of Beijing's efforts to look good for the summer Olympics its central TV station CCTV is getting brand
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2007 | china, beijing, chinese, street, interview, language barrier, language, translation
click to playFound this clip in the new Blue Dot video rollup. Nice! I'd never heard of the show "Sexy Beijing" but it's apparently a transplanted American talking about her experiences in Beijing. In this episode, she asks people on the streets about their "English names" with some pretty funny results.
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