As all of my friends and acquaintances know, I don’t do math. I was fairly good at math until I got to 7th grade and hit algebra. Until that time, I was quite happy adding and subtracting and multipying and dividing numbers. That made sense. You did math with things that you could count. But […]
No Wonder I’m Coughing
The People’s Daily reported today that almost half of all Chinese cities are relatively or heavily polluted. The reality, of course, is that probably most of the cities would fall into those two categories. With winter looming on the horizon, things are only going to get worse, as power plants fire up to provide central […]
A Ningxia Road Trip
In my last post I wrote that I was once again headed out to Ningxia Province, to visit Yinchuan and Guyuan. Whew. That was last week already. I don’t know how we could have packed more in the space of 36 hours than we did. I, along with a group of visitors from the US, […]
Bound for Guyuan
I’m off again tomorrow, this time to the city of Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Autonomous Region, and then on to the smaller city of Guyuan. As some of you may remember, I visited this city in April, and had a fun encounter with some children in a village outside the city. I wrote about in […]
Kunming
This week I’m in Kunming, Yunnan Province, in the southwestern corner of China. Since it’s on the edge of the tripics, Kunming is typically known as the city of eternal spring. Well, it’s been anything but that since I arrived. Cool, damp, and rainy most of the time, which, of course, the locals swears is […]
Holiday Bike Ride
This being the mid-way point in the holiday week here in China, some friends and I decided to bike downtown to Tiananmen Square tonight. It’s the place to be during this time of year. Seemingly out of no-where there are flower sculptures and displays. One is of the Potala Palace in Lhasa to commemorate the […]
