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Winter Palette

It's not often you hear the command "Stop the press!" in magazine circles.Such a weighty and expensive decision is usually reserved for daily newspapers whose production cycles are dictated by the clock. The presses are only held up in face of some really hot exclusive news.

But this literally happened to Beijing This Month as we were about to "go to bed" as we call it. The reason: winter's sudden, final flourish of snow, which within afew hours blanketed every corner of Beijing to produce such a crisp, beautiful wonderland that we got our top photographers straight out onto the streets to record the scenes.

Photographs such as winterscapes should be poetry in picture form, and we hope you agree that our cameramen -- Wang Huiming, Zhao Dechun and Su Guanming -- excelled themselves in recording nature's icing on the Beijing cake.