Photos and text by Joseph Levendusky The Forbidden City moat. The Forbidden City is the touchstone for all things Chinese. Shot between August and November 2010, Beijing Journal is intended as a document of Beijing at this frenetic juncture in its history, when the city is at the height of transformation from the insular old Beijing of the dynasties and the rule of Mao, to that of a fully connected global capital. Rather than an exhaustive study, this work is intended to be a more personal record of the glimpses of Beijing life that revealed themselves in my explorations of the city. Most singularly, I was captivated by the vanishing traditional streetscapes…
