Beijing 1990 Vs 2020 Repack

For those who lived through both eras, the Beijing of 1990 feels less like a recent past and more like a ghost story—a sepia-toned dream of hutongs , seabreezes, and scarcity. The Beijing of 2020, by contrast, is a hyper-modern, surveillance-savvy, and consumer-driven leviathan. Here is the anatomy of that transformation.