Category: China
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Walking a Tight Rope
Hong Kong is a crowded city and a popular tourist destination. Tourists are welcomed here but there’s one group that’s getting a cold shoulder from some of the local residents who have described them as “invading locusts.” Business owners love them because they spend, spend, spend their yuans on luxury goods to take advantage of…
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Gray Skies over Beijing
Beijing, a city of twenty million people was a haze of gray this time around. Smog, smog, smog – blanketing the city like a persistent canker. Most Chinese cities fail minimum air quality standards and it probably came as no surprise to Beijing residents that their air quality standards were met only 48 percent of…
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Sunny Shanghai
The skies were blue, the temperatures cool in the early spring and Shanghai sparkled like a jewel in the Chinese crown during our visit there in mid-March. It’s a dazzling city buzzing with energy and excitement. Everyone heads to the Bund – an area full of landmark buildings, exclusive restaurants, hotels and boutiques. In short,…
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A China Conversation
Naseem: It’s good to be back in Hong Kong after nine eventful days in populous China. Our hosts in Beijing University, Shandong University in Jinan and Nankai University in Tianjin were so hospitable, generous, and ever so respectful. I know you’ll find this embarrassing but I just have to say this because it was something…
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The Great Wall of China – Badaling
Standing on the ramparts of the Great Wall and watching it snake along the tops of distant hills as far as the eye can see must surely count as a highlight in any traveler’s journey. And it was our experience too. We visited the Badaling section of the Wall that is close to Beijing and…
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In the Footsteps of Emperors – Beijing 2010
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Zhuhai Run
We actually celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary by presenting a joint lecture to university students in Zhuhai –a coastal city about an hour from Hong Kong by ferry. This was our first trip to mainland China and it was only for one day, as part of the Fulbright Lecture Series on American Identities. Our topic…
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