Hallmarks of Soviet postwar building boom are finally meeting their demise

Re:Hallmarks of Soviet postwar building boom are finally mee... by justicezyx on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:16PM (#14145189)

Great wall is pretty much a bs produced by some Chinese billionaire together with the nationally treasured director Zhang Yimo, who pretty much has little idea of making good commercial movie.

> letting Westerners steal their cultural treasures

I cannot see where this comes from. Is there any stealing at all?... The movie Great Wall uses Great Wall in a way that is trade-mark hollywood, i.e., purely symbolic, none of cultural connection at all. The story of Great Wall can be made on almost any world famous building/artifact... If that counts a steal, then hollywood cannot make anything not stealing...

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Re:Hallmarks of Soviet postwar building boom are finally mee... by Nition on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:23PM (#14145216)

Ethbro used the definite article on Great Wall; I don't think they're talking about the film.

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Re:Hallmarks of Soviet postwar building boom are finally mee... by ethbro on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:41AM (#14148011)

To flesh it out, I hiked a few portions around Beijing. Next to the entrance to the restored / touristy part there's a smallish musuem / cultural building.

I'd put it on par with a small town's local museum. Maybe the expectation was that people would go to the larger museums downtown, but it seemed surprisingly undersized and thrown together for a large tourist site on a pretty amazing object of historical significance.

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