Visiting Rural China — Central Hunan Countryside
My Changsha friends took me with their car to the rural areas of Hunan Province where I visited an English
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Talk and photos about experiences while visiting in China.
My Silk Road Explorations
One of my dreams is to travel the full length of the historic Silk Road from the traditional origin point
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A Brief Visit to Zhangye, Silk Road Town
I have a fascination with historical contact points between China and the West. So, when I learned that a visiting
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Birthplace of Dr. Sun Yat-sen
In … Guangdong Province, not far from Macau, is a small village by the name of Cuinheng…. excellent museum commemorating the life of Sun Zhongshan…
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I was first introduced to Sun Zhongshan, as he is affectionately known in China…. Dr Sun Yat-sen… Here in Nanjing this grand memorial stretches up the mountainside… he is credited with the overthrow of the last emperor of China in 1911, and the installation of the first democratic republic in all of Asia.
Read moreWuhan, Hubei… Where North Meets South in China
My visits to Wuhan, Hubei Province. The river, the bridge, and city. For centuries, trade and transportation within China were conducted on waterways. With the arrival of railways and the development of roads, one major waterway became an obstacle. That was the mighty Yangtze River (or the ChongJiang, as it is know to the Chinese themselves).
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