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How Bad Can the Notion of Heritage and Preservation Get in China?

Posted: April 30th, 2012 | 4 Comments »

I’m indebted to the Old China Hand and ever alert Italian Journalist in Beijing Laura Daverio for this photo. Destroy a hutong, rebuild a hutong in fake replica style and then let Colonel Sanders move in with that tradition Jingpai special sauce and then illegally park a crappy German car outside!! Oh dear!!

4 Comments on “How Bad Can the Notion of Heritage and Preservation Get in China?”

  1. 1 Ann Rabinowitz said at 2:56 am on May 1st, 2012:

    Dear Mr. French:

    Can you contact me regarding Michel Horjelsky?

    Thanks,
    Ann

  2. 2 Susan Hendricks said at 4:14 am on November 2nd, 2017:

    Dear Ms. Rabinowitz,
    It’s been a while since you inquired to Mr. French, but I thought I’d try to reach you.
    I think Michel Horjelsky may have been a relative of mine. Do you know of any of Michel’s surviving family?
    Thanks,
    Susan

  3. 3 Paul French said at 5:10 pm on November 3rd, 2017:

    Susan, do let me know if you make any contacts – despite many family members of many old Tientsin Grammar School pupils contacting me I haven’t heard anything from a Horjelsky relative – Paul

  4. 4 Susan D Hendricks said at 6:11 am on December 21st, 2017:

    Hi Paul,
    Thanks for your reply. I will visit with Gary Nash who wrote “The Tarasov Saga” in a few weeks when I travel to Sydney Australia. I don’t think he will have known the Horjelsky family because he was about 13 years younger than Michel, but Gary’s grandmother knew my great-grandparents, so you never know.

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