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- Brief Introduction
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Welcome to Beijing-visit.com.
On the 2nd February 2004, American famous weekly "TIME" published the issue "Breaking out, China's youth finally dare to be different." with a Beijing local teenager writer — Chun Sue as its cover girl, who published her debut novel, a semi-authobiography "Beijing Doll" four years ago at the age of 17. Regarded as a Chinese version of "Catcher in the Rye", Sue's spare, sharp writing is dark, wild, weird but thoroughfully unforgettable: the inner confusion of Chinese youth is striking. And the book was immediately banned by Chinese authority (which once again proved they do have reasons to doubt). If we say youth people are the most sensitive, creative and ingenuous like transparent mirro reflecting the bright and bleak of the surrounding, Beijing youth, representing young people in China, have been recognized as the most rebellious, revolting, trying to seek their special way of understanding the world most creatively.
Beijing can trace its history of being a metropolis back to over 3'000 years ago. Since the Qin and Han dynasty, Beijing has always served as a hub of military importance in China's northern area. Every eroding brick that was used to build the gates, walls, architecture of the city; each river and road left with footprints of residents of generations; languages and conversations that carried on speaking; episodes of political vicissitudes it underwent through time, all these constitute a unique landscape and culture of Beijing. As a window to the world, Beijing is a miniature of over 30 years of China's opening up to the outside world, a place of multi-cultures in conflict and syncretization, with hundred schools of thought striving to get their voices heard. Such inclinations of being rebellious against dominance of traditional viewpoints, values, ethics, ways of living and communication have never been brought into extinction, but being contributive to a charming and distinctive panorama.
- Beijing Overview
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In 2008, Beijing successfully held the 2008 Olympic Games and won compliments and recognition
from all over the world. The immense investment projected by China's government essential in establishing Beijing into an international metropolis, contributed greatly to the building and enhancement of environmental heritage enjoyed by Beijing people. Take a look at the amazing architectures newly completed before the Games in Beijing:National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bird's Nest, Water Cube and CCTV new headquater, to name just a few.
See Beijing Architectures >>As the capital of China, Beijing has always been a hub of education, culture, seedbed for social activities, setting of pioneering artistic trends, even a destination where people from across the country pour into for obtaining the identity of permanent residence, including hundreds of millions of immigrant workers who have been sweating their lives away only for the lowest standard of subsistence security here. Sometimes you could feel this asynchronism so tormentingly distinctive: in subway, you can always catch the sight of clean white-collars commuters who keep to themselves either playing psp game or immensed in Ipod music; but next minute you would spot herds of ragged, shabby-clothed, farmers from remote villages be your accompany, making their way through the crowds, with some huge bags of bedclothes on their backs. Next station maybe some embassador joins...
A 3,000 years-old cultural continuity that anchored a society’s ethical underpinnings and sense of identity was shattered in ten years of turmoil. What followed was a hollow shell, a cultural space lacking culture. This enormous vacuum soon inhaled, wholesale, the capitalist world’s methods and values, practices and fetishes, which were hungrily adopted and devoured far faster than they could be assimilated. The social context for this metropolis is hurtling unseeing, at a blinding pace, towards an unknowable future. With a political system that leaves little space for open opposition, the arts characteristic of Beijing are forced to bear a disproportionate, sometimes crushing burden. Poets, novelists, musicians, filmmakers, artists of all types have historically—this is a continuity persisting through from pre-revolutionary China to the present day—felt compelled to respond to national dilemmas, to engage in often coded conflicts over the most profound dilemma: where is this city headed?
The newest statistics show nearly 1/3 out of the total 17 million population of Beijing are migrant workers; the city's been turning into an immigration metroplis just no different with its counterparts in other countries of the world, like Hongkong, Tokyo or New York. It is completely understandable that, a teengage girl-like what Chun Sue had exactly experienced, then still in thirst of questioning and exploring her surroundings — on her way back home after school one day for example, couldnt but feel lost in explanation, passing scences like: a monsterously roaring construction site built against an acient church,with its marbles eroded wearing a peaceful grey-white look; just on the yard in front of the church, a teenager boy in his coolest sporting shoes is playing street board jumping up and down, while inches away an immigrant worker sleeping barefoot on a bench...
Sharp and profound contradictions orignated from people's craving for better living constitute various aspects of this fast developing city. Citizens in rush on the streets are occupied by outrageously intruding thoughts of how to sell and resell; how to accumulate money and maximum profits effortlessly or without expenses. Just as recently as several years ago, the interpersonal network stood critical in the successful undertaking or endeavors to maintain subsistence which is a symbol of the imperial cronyism tradition passed down from history. But Beijingers are very clearly conscious of such a peculiar historical context: boasting ages-old historic relics, amazing ancient architectures and profound Chinese civilization, the beloved city is by no means intolerant of their critical minds and vanguard spirit to carry out reforms and renovations in all areas which are little by little influencing people's living in reality; Beijing young people have faith in an innovatively-spirited China that allows for the contending of all progressive minds, inexhaustable for pursuing the sense of self-belongingness and self-identity.