„Old Beijing“ – did such a place ever truly exist? More than six hundred years of history is crammed into this single expression, but what exactly does it refer to?
Very often such a broad definition leads only to blind nostalgia, creating an image of a place that never really existed, except in the minds of people today.

– Eine schöne Zusammenfassung des diffusen Sehnsuchtsgefühls, das einen manchmal im Beijing des Jahres 2012 überkommt. Siehe auch: Midnight in Paris von Woody Allen.