As Beijing gears up to host the 2008 Olympic Games, it is anxious to project itself as a modern world-class capital. A weak legal system and collusion between real estate developers and local officials has, however, resulted in the wanton demolition of large swathes of the historical city. Up to half of the physical neighbourhoods that once comprised the capital's centre has been destroyed and so has much of the city's social fabric. The Hindu | previously
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