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China--Locations Travel in China 

Hoxud, a Town on the Old Silk Road

2010/02/222017/10/13 Prof Ron China, countryside, Hoxud, Mongolian, photography, Silk Road, tourism, Travel, Uyghur, Xinjiang

I always enjoy the chance to see the “real China”… the places where the majority of people still live out

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China--Locations Travel in China 

The Streets of Urumqi, Xinjiang Region

2010/02/122017/03/25 Prof Ron caravan route, China, Grand Bazaar, photography, Route 312, Silk Road, tourism, Travel, Urumqi, Uyghur, Xinjiang

In October 2007, I enjoyed walking in the streets of Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Austonomous Region. At that

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China--Locations Travel in China 

Visiting Rural China — Central Hunan Countryside

2010/02/06 Prof Ron agriculture, China, countryside, farming, Hunan, photography, road building, road construction, rural, shopkeeper, traditional life, Travel, village life

My Changsha friends took me with their car to the rural areas of Hunan Province where I visited an English

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China--Locations Travel in China 

My Silk Road Explorations

2010/01/19 Prof Ron China, Gansu, Hoxud, Lanzhou, photography, tourism, Travel, Turpan, Urumqi, Xinjiang, Zhangye

One of my dreams is to travel the full length of the historic Silk Road from the traditional origin point

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Other Travel 

Christmas Travel to New York City

2009/12/312018/12/22 Prof Ron 9/11, America, Battery Park, Christmas, culture, Ellis Island, Empire State Building, Ground Zero, Lincoln Tunnel, Macys, New York, New York City, New York Stock Exchange, NY, NYC, photography, St Patricks Cathedral, Statue of Liberty, tenements, Top of the Rock, tourism, tradition, Travel, United States, Wall Street, Western

My daughter and family gave us a lovely gift for Christmas this year… tickets to a “music spectacular” in a

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China--Locations East West History Travel in China 

A Brief Visit to Zhangye, Silk Road Town

2009/12/212016/11/08 Prof Ron China, Dafo Si, English teaching, Gansu, Great Buddha, Hexi Corridor, Marco Polo, photography, Silk Road, study abroad, tourism, Travel, Zhangye

I have a fascination with historical contact points between China and the West.  So, when I learned that a visiting

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