{"id":18930,"date":"2015-04-26T06:31:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T04:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.china-by-bike.de\/blog\/?p=18930"},"modified":"2015-05-19T06:43:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T04:43:50","slug":"making-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/2015\/04\/making-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Making History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandem4family.de\" title=\"tandem4family\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>tandem4family &#8211; Mit der Familienkutsche von Shanghai nach Beijing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the family is reunited after two days, I tell Volker of my Tai\u2019er zhuang experience and we make a brainstorming. If Yaowan was Toontown, then what Tai\u2019er zhuang Ancient Town should be? Chinese Disneyland? \u2013 Fitting, for the whole \u201cancient\u201c town is newly built and it displays some historically dressed statists. But Disneyland makes no pretence that it is for real, plus it offers rides. Potemkin village then? \u2013 Even better, for most of the buildings are nothing but impressive facades, with empty concrete interiors. However, this does not capture the air of cheerful consumerism. A ghost town? A historically themed, open-air shopping mall? But what about the exuberant entrance price, almost triple of that to the Forbidden City? At the end we resign. Tai\u2019er zhuang is simply Tai\u2019er zhuang, sad as it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tandem4family.de\/making-history\/\" title=\"Making History\" target=\"_blank\">Weiter lesen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tandem4family &#8211; Mit der Familienkutsche von Shanghai nach Beijing When the family is reunited after two days, I tell Volker of my Tai\u2019er zhuang experience and we make a brainstorming. If Yaowan was Toontown, then what Tai\u2019er zhuang Ancient Town should be? Chinese Disneyland? \u2013 Fitting, for the whole \u201cancient\u201c town is newly built and it displays some historically dressed statists. But Disneyland makes no pretence that it is for real, plus it offers rides. Potemkin village then? \u2013 Even&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/2015\/04\/making-history\/\">Weiter lesen!<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC7712.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18937,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18930\/revisions\/18937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}