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...Xia Jie stands in the courtyard of her family's house in central Beijing, glancing up as a breeze flutters the leaves of a pomegranate tree. Except for the sounds of playing children in the alley outside, all is silence. "It's hard to believe we are in the center of a city of 15 million, isn't it?" she says. Hers is a traditional, single-story courtyard home in one of the city's ancient hutongs, the lanes that the city's Mongol designers intended as the heart of the metropolis when they planned it in 1272. There were...
...what was once one of the world's best-preserved medieval cities. Numerous stories that make it into China's tightly controlled media about collusion between city officials and developers testify to the fact that regulatory control of Beijing's redevelopment was, for a while, almost non-existent. Still, Xia Jie's house was supposed to be safe, because of its setting within the city's second ring road, which follows the route once marked by the capital's 30-feet high city walls...
...First to walk the walk was Eva Xia ’06, sporting Morton’s FM-inspired newspaper skirt and a backless corporate vest gone wild. Not present in the show was a large fake animal masquerading as a coat, which Morton feared would create a Janet Jackson-moment if removed dramatically...
...walking directions were difficult, it was nothing to the strenuous questions that the judges and audience posed to the designers. Xia, unable to sit in her paper skirt, stepped forward as Morton explained the metropolicity of her outfit. She used found materials—newspapers recycled from the Crimson—to illustrate the gritty underbelly of city life. But the creation had its drawbacks: under interrogation, Morton admitted that the dress wasn’t very practical...
...their main requirements in marriage is a man who has his own apartment, car and some savings," says marriage counselor Shu. But a fat bank account alone doesn't ensure a happy marriage. "In China today, materialism is being pursued at the expense of traditional values like love," frets Xia Xueluan, a sociologist at Peking University. "With conditions like these, I see the divorce rate climbing for several years to come." That's not the only sign that divorce has lost its exoticism. One of last year's hottest TV series highlighted the pitfalls of modern relationships. Its title? Divorce...