David Feng (Switzerland) Home town: Beijing Job: Beijingologist

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"Please get ready for your arrival!"

Whenever I touch down at Beijing Airport, I feel just a tad safer -- knowing that this is Home Turf for me. When I'm immersed in the massive subway system, I feel I could find my way through even if I was blindfolded. When I'm out on Miyun County Highway 004, I can switch off the GPS guidance system and drive back to Dongsi Shitiao Bridge "just like that".

Beijing is my place. Beijingology is what I do.

By the way — if you want to reach me — just mail me direct at david [at] davidfeng [dot] com.

Joined the site 05 Nov 2007

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(20 most recent posts)
Added Mar 17

It Is Now Safe To Have A Haircut

Article <i>What!!???</i> Yep, that's true....

Added Mar 12

T3, Two Years On

Article What a place for your Beijingologist ...

Added Mar 11

Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway: NOT Direct

Article And we have a date (probably the "ope...

Added Mar 10

Drinking and Driving — It Just Won't Work

Article No longer just a problem of <i>not</i...

Added Mar 09

foursquare for Beijing: Mass Transit, Railway Stations Fixed...

Article ...or just about fixed. If you use...

Added Mar 09

Beijing to Chengde — in 40 Minutes?

Article Somehow you have got to <i>love</i> h...

Added Mar 08

Welcome to the Beijing & Hebei Subway

Article The next station is Hebei. Please get...

Added Mar 04

Get Your Trains Tickets Early

Article With the Chunyun or annual Spring Fes...

Added Mar 03

We Need An Empire State Building With Chinese Characteristics

Article Ah, commercial imperialism with Chine...

Added Mar 02

"Congress Weeks" in the Jing: How Still To Get Mileage

Article We wanted to call this the <i>Lianghu...

Added Mar 01

Snow Storm Wreaks Havoc on the Jing

Article Ah, what a way to end that big ole lo...

Added Feb 25

Big Freeze Freezes Express Trains To, From Northeast

Article Oh great. And this RIGHT in the midst...

Added Feb 24

Subway Boy Update: Line 9 — Now Going Through Yuyuantan

Article The evening paper has it on the front...

Added Feb 24

Still the Same Old Rule: One House Per Expat

Article If you want a house in Beijing, make ...

Added Feb 23

Line 10 (Phase Two) Works Are Going OK

Article We've just seen a tunnel boring machi...

Added Feb 22

Our Wacky Capital: Please Get Me Out of Xizhimen...

Article There is a fair bit to <i>hate</i> ab...

Added Feb 22

16°C in the Jing: 61°C? Won't Be Long...

Article The summer of 2009 will be remembered...

Added Feb 22

Your Beijingologist is Back at Starbucks... and at work...

Article First things first: if you, by some f...

Added Feb 12

Gong Xi Fa Cai from your Beijingologist

Article It goes without saying that the Jing ...

Added Feb 11

Subway Update: Line 9's Doing Its Thing Under Yuyuantan

Article The next time you're ever in Yuyuanta...

REVIEWS

 
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DG Lifestyle Store > Oriental Plaza They've quite a lot of Mac accessories, and their softwar...

 
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Timezone 8 World-class Spaghetti Bolognaise with good salad, yummy i...

 
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Bubble Café The pizza is easily the best out there -- in terms of cus...

 
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Starbucks > CWTC1 Store Just be sure to get there in good time during peak hours ...

 
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White Nights Good spaghetti. Wifi I think when the Beijing Linux User ...

 
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The Bookworm Good environment, yet-to-be-improved Spaghetti, and good ...

 
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GL Cafe Restaurant > China World Trade Centre Decent food, good enough environment, but I guess there m...

 
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Chamate > Oriental Plaza Wifi is good (although I can only get on using the chatea...

COMMENTS

Mar 09

Beijing Artists Clash with Property Developers; What’s really going on? This was VERY big on Twitter. There was like a flickr pho...

Mar 04

Get Your Trains Tickets Early Reality already for Sichuan and Guangzhou... these two lo...

Feb 22

Your Beijingologist is Back at Starbucks... and at work... It seems like it's a premiere at Shin Kong. This from the...

Feb 04

Fans of Chinese Film: Three Reasons To Get Down to the Apple Store Should be in or around the Apple Store a fair bit... as a...

Feb 03

Our Wacky Capital: Beijing Weird Railway Station Beijing South is one of those showpieces that have little...

Feb 02

Spit Out That Sprite: We Smell Trouble... Now whenever I find a milk ad anywhere, especially in Chi...

Dec 21

"Mr. Cab Driver, What's Up With the New Taxi Tax?" Just report them if they run afoul of the rules. Nice and...

Dec 17

Subway Report: Line 5 Blues GET THIS: from what I've been hearing lately, folks in WA...

Dec 17

Subway Report: Line 5 Blues I'm with you, nicnic... the Subway forums in and around t...

Dec 17

Subway Boy Report: Lines 8, Changping, and Easier Interchanges Yep, Pingxifu is in the plans. Your "Beijingologistdave" ...

Dec 08

Subway Report: Line 5 Blues Those on Subway forums apparently have a hard time fallin...

Oct 15

Wanbao, Oct 15, 2009: The Exploding Beijingologist Actually, scratch the last post bit. I'm back tomorrow wi...

Oct 14

40 Subway Years: Line 2 Congrats. You know the Subway better than your Beijingolo...

Sep 30

Road Closings and Additional Places You're Not Allowed to Go for the Next 32 Hours Posting from Chaowai. Thank the 7-11 Gods for their prese...

Sep 30

Live View into China's National Day Parade Just leave it to the Weather Gods. They'll face public ha...

Sep 24

'Ge Ge' Gets It Right "I told you so!" :-P Congrats!! :-)

Sep 22

Countdown to Line 4: Beijing South Railway Station The Yikatong card for the train is called a Kuaitong Ka, ...

Sep 22

Countdown to Line 4: Beijing South Railway Station Yup — get this at the Yikatong service center by the Ethn...

Sep 11

Countdown to Line 4: National Library station Äh... mistake... sorry, my bad. Make that... exit C (sout...

Sep 11

Countdown to Line 4: National Library station You'll probably be served by Exit D. I'm assuming you're ...

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xidandave

I am having a very, very difficult time trying to find out exactly where the Pingxifu Subway station (Line 8) will be located. I suspect (but am not sure) that it will be near the entrance to that Hong Fu Yuan (where the Spa, large swimming complex, Petroleum University) is located. Can anyone confirm this? David in Nova Scotia summertime@ns.sympatico.ca

2 months, 3 weeks ago

liminalspace

Hey David - would be so fantastic if you did an article (and maybe translated the super important bits) about the road closures/traffic control/security restrictions in Beijing this weekend (particularly Fri 18th and Sat 19th Sept 2009) as part of the final rehearsal for the 60th anniversary :)

I have been unable to find out any details other than "dozen of roads will be closed" in English anywhere online - but the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Circular (in Chinese only) has a lot of really useful details!

Hope it helps someone!

http://www.bjjtgl.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab91/info14402.htm

6 months ago

xuedi

Hello there,

how are you doing, i find out more and more community website, and get more and more fascinate how much you blog/write on how many site :-O

Keep it flowing! xuedi

1 year, 6 months ago

bubby112

Hi David, I have an event you might be interested in posting. I couldn't find your contact. Is it possible I email the details to you? My email is bubby112@yahoo.com Thank you.

1 year, 7 months ago

hyeji721

My name is Hyeji Jin and I am a summer intern working at OhmyNews International (http://english.ohmynews.com/). OhmyNews(http://www.ohmynews.com) is the premier online citizen journalism site in Korea and we are sending our citizen reporters to cover the Olympic Games in Beijing. It would be great if you and your community can participate in our efforts to learn more about the Beijing Games. We would appreciate any information and advice you have. If you are interested would you contact me through my email? ohmynewsolympics@gmail.com thanks!

1 year, 8 months ago