Where is the market? inquires the tourist one dark, chilly
morning. Follow the ghosts, responds the taxi driver, indicating a
shadowy parade of overloaded tricycles. It s not called the ghost
market for nothing And indeed, Beijing is nothing if not haunted.
Among the soaring skyscrapers, choking exhaust fumes, nonstop
traffic jams, and towering monuments, one discovers old Beijing
newly styled, perhaps, but no less present and powerful than in its
ancient incarnation. "Beijing Time" conducts us into this
mysterious world, at once familiar and yet alien to the
outsider.
The ancient Chinese understood the world as enchanted, its
shapes revealing the mythological order of the universe. In the
structure and detail of Tian anmen Square, the authors reveal the
city as a whole. In Beijing no pyramids stand as proud remnants of
the past; instead, the entire city symbolizes a vibrant
civilization. From Tian anmen Square, we proceed to the
neighborhoods for a glimpse of local color from the granny and the
young police officer to the rag picker and the flower vendor.
Wandering from the avant-garde art market to the clock towers, from
the Monumental Axis to Mao s Mausoleum, the book allows us to peer
into the lives of Beijingers, the rules and rituals that govern
their reality, and the mythologies that furnish their dreams.
Deeply immersed in the culture, everyday and otherworldly, this
anthropological tour, from ancient cosmology to Communist kitsch,
allows us to see as never before how the people of Beijing and
China work and live.
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