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  • Accessible Olympics: Changes to the Forbidden City

    Melinda Liu | Jul 15, 2008 07:32 PM

    Preparations for the Games are bringing all kinds of changes to Beijing. Earlier this year, the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center, a China-based NGO, raised concerns about an unexpected threat to the Forbidden City's historical integrity: wheelchair ramps.  Jennifer Conrad explains:

         Additions to the 600-year-old Forbidden City complex, home of Ming and Qing dynasty emperors and the the centerpiece of old Beijing, would help visitors arriving for September's Paralympic Games to maneuver around the site. 

         On its website, the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center expressed concern that the plan to smooth over the paving of the Forbidden City to make it easier for wheelchairs, to lay wooden ramps across high entrance thresholds, and to install elevators to provide access for those with disabilities to the major raised halls "no doubt...all stem from a well-intentioned concern for the rights of disabled people and a desire for China to be a good host for the Paralympics, but we feel that these proposals, if implemented, may damage the Forbidden City structurally, and will certainly detract from the historical authenticity."     More
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