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WANGFUJING: A Story of One Street

What is a street? It is a passage between two rows of buildings for walking or driving through – an academic dictionary is, as always, laconic. While most of the streets are just ordinary ones, some deserve to be written with a capital ‘S’. Broadway in New York and Arbat in Moscow, Champs Elysees in Paris and Deribasovskaya in Odessa, Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, Khreshchatyk in Kiev, Piccadilly in London… The list of great streets in the most famous and visited cities around the world strikes...

Modified: 01.11.2025
Wangfujing , Dong'an market , famous streets , antropology of commerce , Beijing's history , Chinese culture , westernisation
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