From city walls to toilets to city walls

A group of Beijing residents have given up their only public toilet to help rebuild the historic city walls.

The project to rebuild the walls from the time of the Ming Dynasty is being hampered by a shortage of old bricks, according to a Beijing Morning Post article translated by China Daily.

But residents of Wenshuihe Hutong remembered their public toilets were built with bricks from the old city wall and offered to give them up.

From Ananova (which makes the loss of the wall seem like a matter of prolonged deterioration, instead of the huge Maoist demolition project it actually was).

Posted by David on April 3, 2003 9:09 AM