{"id":3056,"date":"2014-07-07T18:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2020-12-29T21:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T21:17:04","slug":"investigating-beijings-underbelly-for-travel-leisure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2014\/07\/07\/investigating-beijings-underbelly-for-travel-leisure\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating Beijing&#8217;s Underbelly for Travel &#038; Leisure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;]<br \/>\n\t\t\t[et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;]<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t[et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221;]<a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing01.jpg\" alt=\"Clipping from &quot;Beijing 24\/7&quot; for Travel &amp; Leisure\" width=\"950\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing01.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing01-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Bejing is a notoriously hard city to pin down. It takes years of patient observation and interaction to start exposing the multifaceted nature of China\u2019s capital. I can\u2019t even begin to describe the number of parachute journalists who dropped in for a few days and unsuccessfully tried to capture the essence of the city. It was therefore a great pleasure to provide the photography for the one writer who got closest, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Shteyngart\" title=\"Gary Shteyngart - Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gary Shtenyngart<\/a>. The satirical novelist spent a week or so in Beijing and left with quite a grasp of the many paradoxes the city has to offer. Maybe it came from his deadpan Russian roots, but he astutely picked apart the absurdities that make the city such a beguiling place to live. Humor is often the only way to get to the heart of the beast. Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/travel-blog\/carry-on\/2014\/5\/22\/beijing-fast-forwards-to-the-future\" title=\"Beijing 24\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Well done, sir, well done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing02.jpg\" alt=\"Clipping from &quot;Beijing 24\/7&quot; for Travel &amp; Leisure\" width=\"950\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing02.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing02-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing03.jpg\" alt=\"Clipping from &quot;Beijing 24\/7&quot; for Travel &amp; Leisure\" width=\"950\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing03.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing03-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing04.jpg\" alt=\"Clipping from &quot;Beijing 24\/7&quot; for Travel &amp; Leisure\" width=\"950\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing04.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing04-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column]<br \/>\n\t\t\t[\/et_pb_row]<br \/>\n\t\t[\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;] [et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;] [et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221;] Bejing is a notoriously hard city to pin down. It takes years of patient observation and interaction to start exposing the multifaceted nature of China\u2019s capital. I can\u2019t even begin to describe the number of parachute journalists who dropped in for a few days and unsuccessfully tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing01.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing01.jpg\" alt=\"Clipping from &quot;Beijing 24\/7&quot; for Travel &amp; Leisure\" width=\"950\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3057\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"paragraph\"><p>Bejing is a notoriously hard city to pin down. It takes years of patient observation and interaction to start exposing the multifaceted nature of China\u2019s capital. I can\u2019t even begin to describe the number of parachute journalists who dropped in for a few days and unsuccessfully tried to capture the essence of the city. It was therefore a great pleasure to provide the photography for the one writer who got closest, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Shteyngart\" title=\"Gary Shteyngart - Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Shtenyngart<\/a>. The satirical novelist spent a week or so in Beijing and left with quite a grasp of the many paradoxes the city has to offer. Maybe it came from his deadpan Russian roots, but he astutely picked apart the absurdities that make the city such a beguiling place to live. Humor is often the only way to get to the heart of the beast. Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/travel-blog\/carry-on\/2014\/5\/22\/beijing-fast-forwards-to-the-future\" title=\"Beijing 24\/7\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Well done, sir, well done.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing02.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing02.jpg\" alt=\"Clipping from &quot;Beijing 24\/7&quot; for Travel &amp; Leisure\" width=\"950\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3058\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing03.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing03.jpg\" alt=\"Clipping from &quot;Beijing 24\/7&quot; for Travel &amp; Leisure\" width=\"950\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3059\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing04.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_clipping_travelleisure_247beijing04.jpg\" alt=\"Clipping from &quot;Beijing 24\/7&quot; for Travel &amp; Leisure\" width=\"950\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3060\" \/><\/a>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,14],"tags":[39,83,88,492,406],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings_category","category-consumerism_category","category-travel_category","tag-beijing","tag-chocolate","tag-clipping","tag-satire","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}