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Since his first visit to Beijing in 1981,China has had a special place for filmmaker Malcolm Clarke.During his latest trip to Beijing,the Oscarwinning director recalled his 1981 visit to the Chinese capital.Like most foreign guests who visited China in the early 1980s,Clarke stayed at the Beijing Hotel,which faces south toward Chang’an Avenue.Every morning he would wake up to ringing bicycle bells and was astonished to look out of his window and see the street flooded with hundreds of locals biking to work.