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 Stories About: China AND placemaking AND public transportation AND Tibet
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On Track Betting
A journey on China's controversial new train to Tibet |
Erica Gies |
23 Feb 2007 |
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| Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. A mere 48 hours later, it rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. Waiting to depart from Beijing. Photos: Erica Gies Shortly after 9 p.m. one warm night last fall, my travel companion and I raced through the sprawling West Beijing train station, weaving our way through a crush of humanity sitting on newspapers and bits of cardboard, eating cups ... |
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| Topics: China, placemaking, public transportation, Tibet (all these topics) |
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