Blog Tag - Beijing History

Five Years Ago Today: The CCTV Hotel Tower Burns
Five years ago tonight (Sunday), the China Central Television (CCTV) hotel tower caught fire during an illegal fireworks display and burned, killing...
Stat: Ancient Ice Roads Helped Construct the Forbidden City?
Every month we appease our inner nerd by digging up some local statistics This month we went for ancient ice roads: Historians believe 70km of ice...
Rediscovering Beijing: The Ancient Observatory
Editor's Note: Asia Obscura's Andy Deemer has been kind enough to let us rummage through his archives for some of his best posts from his Beijing...
Rediscovering Beijing: Finding the Elephants
Editor's Note: Asia Obscura's Andy Deemer has been kind enough to let us rummage through his archives for some of his best posts from his Beijing...
What's This Mega Epic Sidecar Time Travel Race All About Anyways?
Prepare for the ultimate Beijing time travel experience. Beijing Sideways and Bespoke Beijing have teamed up to bring you a thrilling scavenger hunt...
Stuck in Town This Holiday? There's Always the China Businessman Museum
Editor's Note: Asia Obscura's Andy Deemer has been kind enough to let us rummage through his archives for some of his best posts from his Beijing...
Splash From The Past: Take A Boat Cruise on Guo Shoujing's Waterways
Amid the vast swaths of tar and sprawling concrete landscapes that make up Beijing, a historical network of waterways weaves its way. Hidden canals...
Check This Out: Online Gallery of Old Beijing City Wall and Gates Photos
Beijingofdreams is a new site by by an organization called the Chinese History of Science and Culture Foundation. It consists of a fascinating...