摘 要: | A SCENDING the ancient stone steps to Red Gate Gallery reveals the quintessential Beijing pan orama. The gallery is housed in Dongbianmen Watchtower, a Ming Dynasty structure straddling the last crumbling vestiges of Beijing's city wall. Like a besieged bastion of the city's imperial past, the watchtower is hemmed in by railway lines and Beijing's Second Ring Road. The glass and steel edifices of the CBD loom in the distance. It's appropriate that this ancient fortress, surrounded by a cornucopia of modern development, houses a gallery that has long been a cultural bastion of a more contemoorary kind.
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