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Tempest Brews Over Coffee Shop; U.S. Chain Stirs Ire in Beijing's Forbidden City
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
November 23, 2000| Author:
John Pomfret
| Copyright 2000 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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A Starbucks has opened in the Forbidden City and it's causing a
stink in Beijing.
It could be called globalization run amok and bad taste, even
American cultural imperialism. It is certainly an irritant to Chinese
nationalists. Or it may be just a nice place to get a mellow
macchiato on a cold fall afternoon. But the opening last month of the
19th Starbucks outlet in the Chinese capital, smack in the middle of
the ancient home of China's emperors, has sparked a tempest in a
coffee mug....
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