The Temple of Heaven 天坛, BeiJing (3)

With The New Atlas ... Bonus film ... Bonus film 2 ... Bonus film 3 ... Bonus film 4 ... Bonus film 5 ... Bonus film 6 ...

With Walk East ...

This beautiful Ming dynasty complex (GuGong, 'Old Palace'), which opened in 1420, lies in the heart of Beijing ... Bonus films - mostly Beijing, plus a little ShangHai ...

Bamboo (a grass) is fast-growing and sustainable, light and strong ...

Over 50 minutes of relaxing traditional Chinese music.

昆明~石林…奇峰異石 Approximately 90 km (55 miles) from the provincial capital of YunNan, KunMing.

With Ben Norton ... Geopolitics and economics (plus neo-liberalism, World Bank, IMF, ...) - finance capitalism over industrial capitalism - human rights turned into commodities - why the West seeks to keep all others poor - professor Michael Hudson lays it out - don't miss it ... Meanwhile .

Top videographers - bjKina, AnyuXu and DearNessie - take you on a tour of Beijing ... First song : Going Home by Faye Wong, from the album To Love, 2003. Note : highly addictive music straight ahead ... A fantastic video film by AnYu Xu ... Includes a great hyperlapse along Beijing's south-north axis, from [TianTan, the Temple of Heaven], QianMen, through Tian'AnMen, GuGong ('Old Palace', the 'Forbidden City' / Palace Museum), JingShan Park, the Drum and Bell Towers and onto the Olympic Park and Olympic Forest Park .

Mindsets (history and philosophy) and economics (trade and wealth distribution). Jeff Sachs talks with Rob Johnson about the current tragedy (doom) of US geopolitics. Don't miss it ...

There are nearly 300 photographs in this beautiful slideshow ...