Greetings from kaili, Guizhou Province, People’s Republic of China. It is a really wild place. Very beautiful but a little rough edged and quite poor..caol mines to the north and ringed by industry zones, beyond which are stunningly ebautiful lush green valleys filled with mountains, rivers and rice paddies. It sort of reminds me of […]
Alan, The mad frenzy at the train station book store you described is reminicent of the comical phenomenon my wife and I experience each time we are away from Beijing on short home leave trips. Sometimes it is not just reading material but simple consumerism in its most raw form. There was a time we […]
Today is May Day and it kicks off a week-long national holiday. No school, no ayis, lots of stuff closed.. We are going to Guizhou on Weds. evening. it is a South Central Chinese province, supposed to be very pretty and pretty poor and remote. It is dominated by Miao minority… same as the Hmong, […]
Since my column going up in a few hours is on the same topic, I took a particular interest in this story from the state-run China Daily. Come with the windBy Ye Jun (China Daily)Updated: 2006-04-21 09:03 In the past two weeks, Beijing has witnessed some of the capital’s worst spring weather in history. Chilly […]