Rants & Epiphanies
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“Wisdom that will bless I, who live in the spiral joy born at the utter end of a black prayer.” • — Keiji Haino “The subject of human creativity is not an ethnic-centric, but a composite subject.” • — Anthony Braxton “… It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.” • — The Marquis de Sade
In our "Housed in Tradition" series, we're going to visit three cities in China to explore the relationship between people and the buildings they have inhabited, both at different points in history and today. In this episode, let's follow CGTN reporter Qi Jie to the Forbidden City in downtown Beijing. Completed in 1420 after 14 years of dedicated building efforts, it boasts some of the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden buildings anywhere in the world, thanks to generations of committed guardians!
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