Gone with the wind of change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1411417,00.html
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Saturday February 12, 2005
The Guardian
They can hardly be mourned on aesthetic, historical or ethical grounds,
but the demise of Beijing's two most notorious tourist traps is likely
to induce at least a twinge of nostalgia in any foreigner who has
visited the city in the past 10 years.
In less than two months the Silk Market, one of the world's hotbeds of
brand piracy, has been shut down and South Bar Street in Sanlitun, the
city's most popular collection of watering holes, has been demolished.
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