Beijing Today (May 24, 2013)

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BEIJING TODAY

A community ruined Michael Meyer records the death of a hutong in his book The Last Days of Old Beijing. His vignettes of the vanishing city are finally available in Chinese in a new edition by Shanghai Translation Publishing House. The book follows the story of a community living a collision of eras, and how a market economy smashed what had weathered centuries of political turmoil.

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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY May 24 2013-May 30 2013 NO. 624 CN11-0120 HTTP://WWW.BEIJINGTODAY.COM.CN CHIEF EDITOR: YU SHANSHAN NEWS EDITOR: HUANG DAOHEN DESIGNER:YANG GEN

Indie record stores struggle in digital age

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LGBT workers still in the closet

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