The mystery of the Passby bar (continued)
I’ve now posted some pictures of the pailou outside the PassBy Bar in Beijing, a very pleasant courtyard bar, restaurant, internet bar, and lending library. It appears that it really, though, is a front for a child clinical psychology operation. Here’s the picture:
The sign on the left says:
“Chinese Academy of Sciences Psychology Research Institute
Counseling psychology research training center”
The sign on the right is partially occluded, so here’s a picture just of that side:
It says:
“Beijing Huali (Huali is probably a name, although it could mean something like “Magnificent theory” or be a reference to Chinese psychology)
Psychological health center
Child Psychology research training center”
I asked some friends who are child psychologists at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences if they knew anything about this, and they didn’t, although they thought that during the SARS crisis there was an effort to disperse counseling centers into the community.
If I have time, I’ll try to go back there and try to figure out what the story is.
Interesting idea—I wonder if I could get my department in Illinois to open a courtyard bar and restaurant? We face our own difficult financial times, and this might be a solution…