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Woman walking past Qian Xiang Yi silk shop

New Qianmen
新前门

August 7, 2008

I couldn't help but wonder what she thought of all this. The introduction of trolley cars, the automobile, the revolutions, the tearing down of the Inner City Walls, the gradual decline of the neighborhood and now - again, nothing is the same. So many changes in her lifetime, but the pace has quickened to a frenzy.












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