Absurdity, Allegory and China

I have been in Beijing for the past two days. Later this morning I will go to Beijing West Train Station to meet the 16 folks coming in from Qinghai, and then we’ll head back to Tianjin. The weather is great in the capital city. Yesterday I spent the day taking photos, and, of course, spent several hours in the afternoon and early evening circumambulating the CCTV HQ project (and no, it didn’t fall down), getting into the Chinese housing blocks northeast of the complex to see how it feels from the POV of those who, no doubt, will be losing their homes after the Olympics as the CBD expands and gobbles them up. These folks have watched this thing rise up among them, knowing that it is the first line of attack which will inevitably set them to retreat. My love-hate relationship with this building continues. I can’t take my eyes off it. Will post more photos when I return to Tianjin.