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Asian Migration and Global Cities

Anne Cong-Huyen, Jonathan Young Banfill, Katherine Herrera, Samantha Ching, Natalie Yip, Thania Lucero, Randy Mai, Candice Lau, Authors

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Drum and Bell Tower

The Drum Tower rises up above a northern neighborhood. It was used to tell time in the imperial city. Now it is a courtyard where tourist buses parks, but that is also surrounded by quiet coffee shops. The busy road at its southern end leads east down a street of used clothes stores, music stores, cafes, and other bohemian places, before reaching Nanluoguxiang, and continuing on farther to where GuiJie is.

In recent years there has been talk of redevelopment plans and evictions in this area, the fear being that it will turn into another dead tourist site by greedy developers. . . losing the living and low-rent artistic quality that this area seems to have. Will the cafes be gone then? The residents mingling with camera toting tourists in the small lanes?
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