Bespoke + BJ Postcards: Layers of Beijing Walking Tour
Posted: May 20th, 2015 | Author: LumDimSum | Filed under: Food For Thought, LDS Interviews, Travel, Upcoming Events | Tags: Beijing Postcards, Bespoke Beijing, Lars Ulrik Thom, Layers of Beijing, Rosie Levine, Simon Gjeroe | 2 Comments »Bespoke Beijing Travel & Events Co. teams up with the passionate historians of Beijing Postcards for the launch of their next limited edition public walking tour: Layers of Beijing. A tour that winds you through the hidden hutongs behind Zhangzizhong Lu, the Beijing Postcards team re-traces life in Beijing from the founding of the People’s Republic to the present day revealing the layers that have shaped Beijing into the capital that you see today.
Step-by-step, as you wind deeper into the narrow hutongs, historian extraordinaires Lars Ulrik Thom (Founder of Beijing Postcards) and Rosie Levine (Co-Researcher and Collaborator for Beijing Postcards) explain the incredible changes experienced from the 1950’s social campaigns that set the foundations of Beiping society that brilliantly pulled everyone together to the chaos of the 1960’s when everything fell apart as people were pushed to return to the countryside.
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