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This is a store.

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This is an old theatre, I believe.

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Two thirds of Chow Yun-Fat's role was cut out of the Chinese version of this flick in order to get the movie to be approved to be shown in China. Officially, it's because of "excessive violence and horror". Oddly enough, Chow’s reading of the poem The Moon Shining Over the Mountain on the Border by famous Tang dynasty poet Li Bai has also been cut. Remember, there is no freedom of speech here.

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Dazhalan Jie street.

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Across from my hotel.

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The "Leaders", which were explained to me to be the soldiers & farmers. Not what I expected when I heard the phrase "the leaders".

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More of the Leaders.

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Close up of some of the "Leaders".

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The "Leaders" on both sides of Chairman Mao's tomb, which was closed for renovation (for the 2008 Olympics. No dead Mao for Amy, unfortunately.

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According to Lee, a Beijing local, these statues on either side of Mao's tomb are of the "Leaders" - farmers and soldiers.

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Carvings of the fallen military on the Monument to the People's Heroes.

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The picture every visitor to Tienanmen takes displaying the Great Leader.

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At Tiananmen Square

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Monument to the People's Heroes at Tienanmen Square

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This is the slogan for the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

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Looking down the street near my hotel.

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On one side of my hotel. Yippee for capitalism?

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On the right side of my hotel. Capitalism is well and alive for Western visitors to Beijing (and an extremely small minority of Beijing-ers).

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My hotel.

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One of the forms I had to fill out to enter China. Under no circumstance, was I going to claim that I had Psychosis in the last 7 days.

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