“There’s an interesting debate on the streets of Beijing. On one level it is about ripping down old neighbourhoods and replacing them with gleaming new developments. On another it is about Western ideas of what China is – or was – and what it ought to be. Beijing is changing so rapidly it is hard to keep track of the speed with which whole suburbs are transformed. Greed and speed are conspiring to obliterate the old before any evaluation of what might be worth preserving.” – Sydney Morning Herald 10/26/00