The New Leader, November 30th, 1992
BEIJING
WHEN I ASKED a young Dutch assistant banquet manager in training at the new China World Hotel why he had come all the way to Beijing to learn the job, he replied: "I want to see the world, especially this part of the world. In five years China will not be at all like it used to be. And I shall miss old China."
He is only partially correct. China, physically, already is not what it used to be. Standing in the enormous, high-ceilinged banquet hail of the monstrous ultra-modern complex known as the China World Trade Center, I found myself lamenting the loss of Beijing's innocence.
It...
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