Beijing, China Sunday, March 7, 2010
Twenty-eight years after I first came to Beijing, it is comforting to see that some things are still the same. Enormous physical, economic, and social changes have come to China over the past three decades, but in this short weekend in Beijing I was able to observe at least two similarities with the past: 1) folks still crowd in to have their pictures taken in front of Mao's picture at the Forbidden City and 2) in a country with a less-enforceable-than-ever one-child policy, twins are still as precious as ever.
