snake vendor

Beijing, June 2014.

Summertime (past and present)

Beijing, June 2014.

I do 摄影 house

Datong, April 2014.

Safe trip

Mount Heng, Shanxi, April 2014.

Mount Heng

Mount Heng, April 2014.

Staircase to the Chinese heaven

Mount Heng, Shanxi, April 2014.

Datong and building a new old city

 Building a new ancient city wall

 Tearing down the recent past

Creating the new past

 

New ancient dream town, locals, and foreign guests.  

Datong, Shanxi, April 2014.

Yungang Grottoes Datong

Datong, Shanxi, April 2014.

A bit of Germany in Beijing

Beijing, November 2013.

Beijing Street Scene

Beijing, April 2014.

Cat Bar Beijing

Sirena, Beijing, April 2014.

Hutong chic

Coming out of the shadows.

Beijing, December 2013.

Subway crowd pushers

Beijing, September 2013.

Selling puppies

Beijing, September 2013.

Helmet and heads

Beijing, September 2013.

Face it, beauty

Beijing, September 2013.

How to devalue a $3.2 million property?

It all happened in two days 

while the property from where the pictures were taken 

was built in one year.

Building the slum house took only a few hours. 

Spot the nice window below.

 Negotiations started: the window got closed.

 More beautification, negotiations ongoing.

Negotiations failed: Phase 2 begins.

It is still not clear what phase 2 means: 

Space for water tanks, flat-plate solar collector, 

or simply 2 new rooms to be rented out? 

Negotiations resumed: 

The 2nd floor construction is getting some paint.

The view since more than one month: 

Negotiations ongoing but ...

Now ask about building standards, hutong policies, and the rule of law.

In sum, time to leave.

Beijing, May 2013.