Běijīng ( 北京 ). A voyage to Běijīng, China ( 中国 ), Asia

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It is also an aspiring, confident and modern city that seems assured of its destiny to rule over <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinationRedirector?atlasId=355904">China</a> <i>ad infinitum</i>. </div> A vast and symmetrical metropolis, Běijīng is the orderly seat of the communist political power in <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwGq1H4xoZ-3OicS1N0iy9DfaLUyrULzvi01qv7WvlVWWQz94OSPFdzwHMwXNiAF4mq7kpeiFQ9SafzTG0HA0xOqggeWHwL_t-ITeSZXbB14Rpb3Z2Mnc5INbRQ3KPWMOqp2v-9kVCyW9Z/s1600/B%C4%9Bij%C4%ABng+11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwGq1H4xoZ-3OicS1N0iy9DfaLUyrULzvi01qv7WvlVWWQz94OSPFdzwHMwXNiAF4mq7kpeiFQ9SafzTG0HA0xOqggeWHwL_t-ITeSZXbB14Rpb3Z2Mnc5INbRQ3KPWMOqp2v-9kVCyW9Z/s200/B%C4%9Bij%C4%ABng+11.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRhnCWR84hNqkf1s8SjjpUU8V4sYLsRqZlJ24G69SU4vSAtAsa_BBrAh0JMMXQuJgs9spvrMvDlwyRG95anPODsOrnTZSCrUxBpodszARWZ0fdXLeqNoUIuKNEmEsPY3pltOrn8I8UTb6/s1600/B%C4%9Bij%C4%ABng+21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRhnCWR84hNqkf1s8SjjpUU8V4sYLsRqZlJ24G69SU4vSAtAsa_BBrAh0JMMXQuJgs9spvrMvDlwyRG95anPODsOrnTZSCrUxBpodszARWZ0fdXLeqNoUIuKNEmEsPY3pltOrn8I8UTb6/s200/B%C4%9Bij%C4%ABng+21.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinationRedirector?atlasId=355904">China</a>, so its architecture traces each and every mood swing from 1949 to the present, from felled <i>hútòng</i> (narrow alleys) to huge underground bomb shelters scooped out during the paranoid 1970s.<br />One moment you are sizing up a blank Soviet-style monument, the next you spot a vast, shimmering tower rising up from the footprint of a vanished temple.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ACw8kFWbLYSQlCdpSoVtfogHxyEsIiLGn7C9jBw8rRZF9xaF4J4hN8CUV23F4-AjRXvqKMtcPsiT8N1AmUzjwrc22sOiFTSfMkwR754ZnvpLgLWTV0XMZKksM_B5PZgIMtTRqmSRLU20/s1600/B%C4%9Bij%C4%ABng+24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; 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Běijīng ( 北京 ). A voyage to Běijīng, China ( 中国 ), Asia

Stop–start capital since the Mongol Yuan dynasty, Běijīng is one of China ’s true ancient citadels. It is also an aspiring, confiden...

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