Online Talk: Looking for the Master Plan

Thursday, May 14, 2020 20:00 to 21:30

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Online talk via Zoom

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Online Talk: Looking for the Master Plan

Price: ￥100

Online Talk: Looking for the Master Plan

Thursday, May 14, 2020 20:00 to 21:30

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Online talk via Zoom

Organizer: Beijing Postcards More Events

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Online Talk: Looking for the Master Plan

Thursday, May 14, 2020 20:00 to 21:30 Online talk via Zoom

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Beijing Postcards

Beijing Postcards is a small, history-focused company in Beijing. We conduct archival research and oral history projects in order to create original walks, talks, events and historical souvenirs.

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Why Beijing? With such a limited access to water and a general lack of natural resources, who in their right mind would ever place a capital here? "Looking for the Master Plan" is a crash course in Beijing's urban development. The talk takes on more than 2000 years of Beijing history and tries to answer why the capital was placed here on the Huabei plain. We will discuss how politics, trade, geography and defence all had a say in making Beijing the capital of China. In the talk we will utilize original maps from the Beijing Postcards collection, creating a comprehensive answer to the complicated mixture of circumstances that made Beijing the Northern Capital.

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