TY - JOUR

T1 - Wangfujing: A Story of One Street

AU - Solovyev, Alexander

AU - Azarenko, Yulia

AU - Komissarov, Sergei

N1 - Solovyev, A. I. WANGFUJING: A Story of One Street / A. I. Solovyev, Yu. A. Azarenko, S. A. Komissarov // Science First Hand. – 2025. – No. 2(69). – P. 52-81. – EDN PTTSGV.

PY - 2025/11/1

Y1 - 2025/11/1

N2 - What is a street? It is a passage between two rows of buildings for walking or driving through - an academic dictionary is, as always, laconic. While most of the streets are just ordinary ones, some deserve to be written with a capital ‘S’. Broadway in New York and Arbat in Moscow, Champs Elysees in Paris and Deribasovskaya in Odessa, Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, Khreshchatyk in Kiev, Piccadilly in London… The list of great streets in the most famous and visited cities around the world strikes imagination, and so do their appearances, which differ as much as the faces and languages of the tourists who are filling them. But all these streets have one thing in common - being a quintessence of national spirit, they are essentially cosmopolitan and serve as global “crossroads,” where people of different nationalities and cultures can get to know one another better and feel themselves to be part of a single humanity. An exploration now awaits the reader, a guided tour of the past and present of Wangfujing, the most ancient and famous trading street in Beijing, a face-to-face meeting spot for tradition and modernity, for the mysterious East and the pragmatic West. And the role of the guides is assumed by Novosibirsk academics, who have repeatedly shared on the pages of our magazine their travel impressions of China, our great neighbor with a history of more than three thousand years.

AB - What is a street? It is a passage between two rows of buildings for walking or driving through - an academic dictionary is, as always, laconic. While most of the streets are just ordinary ones, some deserve to be written with a capital ‘S’. Broadway in New York and Arbat in Moscow, Champs Elysees in Paris and Deribasovskaya in Odessa, Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, Khreshchatyk in Kiev, Piccadilly in London… The list of great streets in the most famous and visited cities around the world strikes imagination, and so do their appearances, which differ as much as the faces and languages of the tourists who are filling them. But all these streets have one thing in common - being a quintessence of national spirit, they are essentially cosmopolitan and serve as global “crossroads,” where people of different nationalities and cultures can get to know one another better and feel themselves to be part of a single humanity. An exploration now awaits the reader, a guided tour of the past and present of Wangfujing, the most ancient and famous trading street in Beijing, a face-to-face meeting spot for tradition and modernity, for the mysterious East and the pragmatic West. And the role of the guides is assumed by Novosibirsk academics, who have repeatedly shared on the pages of our magazine their travel impressions of China, our great neighbor with a history of more than three thousand years.

KW - WANGFUJING

KW - DONG'AN MARKET

KW - FAMOUS STREETS

KW - ANTROPOLOGY OF COMMERCE

KW - BEIJING'S HISTORY

KW - CHINESE CULTURE

KW - WESTERNIZATION

UR - https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=83162242

M3 - Article

VL - 69

SP - 52

EP - 81

JO - Science first hand

JF - Science first hand

SN - 3210-2500

IS - 2

M1 - 2

ER -