”Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” It’s a basic precept taught to almost every American child, but how many know that the renowned “Golden Rule” originated with Confucius more than 2500 years ago? And perhaps …
Category: China
Where Nine Dragons Drop Their Pearls: Kowloon by Emma Krasov
Photography by Yuri Krasov Properly inspired by the millennia-old tales, and already immersed in the local culture, I easily made up a dragon playing with his “fortune pearl” out of the map of Kowloon Peninsula and Hong Kong Island. Of …
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Visiting China and Tibet by Leslie R. Adams
Part 1 So, here I am, again, at a hotel internet…. ahhh, I do love this feeling. That it is in English and the keyboard works is gravy. The major obstacle so far was the plane flight and sitting next …
Three Wonderful Weeks in China by Bonnie and Bill Neely
We chose to go to China just before the Olympics, when we thought prices would be still very good and it would not be so crowded yet every place would be clean and ready. We were very happy with our …
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Old Habits Die More Easily Than Expectorated by Juliana Keeping
I moved to China with my fiancé just over a month ago to teach English as a second language at a university in northeast China. Differences between life in Chicago and life on the other side of the world, in …
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Grandma Was a Shaolin Monk Travel All the Way Around the World and You Wind up Back Where You Started by Antonio Graceffo
I was wearing an oversized white cowboy hat, boots, three sizes too big, two pistols, and nothing else. The woman I was with refused to take me to the fair till I put some clothes on. I stomped my foot …
Discovering The Chinese Way by Julie Thompson
“The ancient building is renovating. Excuse me for bringing trouble to you,” read the apologetic sign on a building in the centre of Beijing. For Faith Whitell, aged 66, of GinGin, Western Australia, it was just yet another example of …
Ashland: Scenery, History Plus Shakespeare by Larry and Gail Taylor
Years ago tourists came to Ashland, Oregon, for the waters; now they come to see the plays. From the early 1900s, Ashland locals were aware that the mineral waters bubbling up from Lithia Springs just outside town were beneficial in …
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Fine Pieces of China(Part 2) by Mary McIntosh
The next morning, tightly clasping my “now-working” camera., I turned to speak to John. He and his wife had traveled from Cincinnati. “Did you hear my camera’s working now?” John had suggested I try new batteries. “I’ll be able to …
Some Fine Pieces Of China (Part 1) by Mary McIntosh
I had always thought how wonderful it would be to visit China, but even after I started traveling extensively, a trip there seemed beyond my budget. In 1992 I heard of a first-class tour that was quite inexpensive, so I …
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