http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/04/10/imperial-pedigree/ Exploring urban life through word and photography. Fri, 16 May 2008 20:09:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/04/10/imperial-pedigree/#comment-151550 Cedric Sam Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:18:58 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/04/10/imperial-pedigree/#comment-151550 That's a very interesting remark. I had a thought today about street names, as I was walking in the streets of Taipei. There were several historical personalities streets like "Roosevelt" or "Zhongshan" (no CKS, however), a number of streets named for general stuff like the equivalent of "Du Parc", and then, something that we don't have here, names of cities in China, like "Chongqing", "Chengdu" or "Nanjing". The latter seems like a remarkable constant, whether you are in Beijing, Shanghai, or Hong Kong ("Peking Road", anyone?). That’s a very interesting remark. I had a thought today about street names, as I was walking in the streets of Taipei. There were several historical personalities streets like “Roosevelt” or “Zhongshan” (no CKS, however), a number of streets named for general stuff like the equivalent of “Du Parc”, and then, something that we don’t have here, names of cities in China, like “Chongqing”, “Chengdu” or “Nanjing”. The latter seems like a remarkable constant, whether you are in Beijing, Shanghai, or Hong Kong (”Peking Road”, anyone?).

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