Beijing’s citizens are living under more than the legendary smog clouds. The world will be focused on China’s capital city this August, and, if all goes to the Communist Party’s plan, we will be overawed by the glittering lights and maximalist constructions of a building boom whose bill runs into the tens of billions of yuan. Monocle visits the Olympic Park to find out if this is nation-branding folly on a gargantuan scale, or the starting pistol of the Chinese century.
- Photographers
- Satoshi Minakawa