by Deirdre Timmons | Apr 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
The imperial palace housed 24 successive emperors, beginning in the 1400s and lasting through the Ming and Qing Dinasties. With 900-plus rooms (9 is a lucky number in China), 79 halls, and enough room to house 3,000 concubines (aged 13 to 17, and often executed at the...
by Deirdre Timmons | Apr 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Not everybody enjoys silly photos quite so much as we do. So we posed like many of the people (especially men) were posing in their photos today. Stern. Authoritative. And not so deep down, FOS.
by Deirdre Timmons | Apr 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Forbidden City.
by Deirdre Timmons | Apr 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Out of admiration for the accomplishments of those brilliant buggers who figured out how to keep time (a notion I still find challenging), we visited the Clocks and Watches Exhibit based in The Forbidden City’s Fengxian Hall. Collected between 1736 and 1820, the...
by Deirdre Timmons | Apr 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Stripping is illegal in China. So when we saw a listing for a burlesque show in Beijing, we HAD to go. How would they perform burlesque, where one of the main tenets of this performance style is – as Miss Indigo Blue would say – Performer enters the stage...
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