Beijing, China - May 1982: Living in Hong Kong in the early 1980's, I was one of the first Westerners to return to Beijing after the re-opening of Chi

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Beijing, China - May 1982: Living in Hong Kong in the early 1980's, I was one of the first Westerners to return to Beijing after the re-opening of China. And I have been going there ever since. So I can tell you that no other place I have seen has changed as much as this. This historic image from 1982 shows just how much it has come to transform itself into the gleaming, hyper-modern but utterly soulless megapolis it has become today. Places like this were amongst the first to

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