THE NEW CHINESE MARVELS
 
BEHIND THE NEW CHINESE MARVELS
 
     
In Beijing, wildly imaginative mega-structures, designed by the world's most avant-garde architects and assembled here for a fraction of the price in the West, are redefining a landscape once dominated by the imperial grandeur of the Forbidden City and Soviet-style monuments. Life on the ground, however, remains an incongruous mix of the old and the new, the rich and the poor.
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