This is my experience in Beijing, China in the Summer of 2009.
If you came to this webpage first, it's better if you
start from the beginning of the story.
04/08/24 Update: I just discovered my flash videos for the China 2009 website are no longer playing.
No one told me about this.
I don't know how long they were down but it had to be within the last 4 years.
Anyway, I converted the video format from Flash (FLV) to MP4 to be more compatible
with the current browsers and found another player
so this video is up and running again!
At Xi'an.
This is dig site 1 of the Terracotta Warriors. It is the oldest and largest of three dig sites.
I'm just panning around to show the size of this place.
When I was here 10 years ago, they had this tight assed policy of absolutely no picture taking.
So what changed? I surmise it was the 2008 Olympics and tourism. They couldn't promote the
terracotta warriors and then say you can't take pictures to +500,000 tourists.
That would be absurd.