I went to Washington DC’s Hirshhorn Gallery without really knowing anything about Ai Weiwei’s artistic career. I was mostly interested in seeing if Ai is a great artist, or if the US media pays him […]
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There aren’t too many places in China that I would recommend to digital nomads, but Dali is one of them. Dali is an ancient city, but among the old stone buildings and cobbled streets, there
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For a balanced view of China I’ve published this post simultaneously along with the more negative: Why it’s time to leave China It’s not about the Great Wall. Not that I’ve got anything against the
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For a balanced view of China I’ve published this post simultaneously along with the more positive: What I love about China (it’s not what You Think Not that I have to. But want to. More
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My Uncle has a joke that goes something like this: “I know Arabic.” “What are you talking about, Uncle Jim? Of course you don’t.” We would think to ourselves, waiting for the punchline. Then he
This Post is part of a series. Read: Cruising the Yangtze Day 1: Leaving Chongqing and Cruising the Yangtze Day 2: The Three Gorges Before touring the Three Gorges Dam, we would have
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This Post is part of a series. Read: Cruising the Yangtze Day 1: Leaving Chongqing The day before all I could think about was whether the fog would clear out by today. This
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Our ship pulled out of Chongqing the night before at 22:00—slowly leaving the bright lights of this megacity at the confluence of two great rivers. We had explored Chongqing by foot, up and down
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93. He pencils in the only thing I can understand among the Chinese characters. He smiles and points to the man with a long grey beard and arching back behind me. I smile. He’s predicting
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Shaxi’s Friday Market was by far the most interesting of the markets we had had visited in China’s Yunnan Province. Sha Ping Market, the previous Monday, was big, lively, and interesting. But Shaxi’s market was
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Years ago, I remember flipping through a National Geographic magazine seeing a photograph of a person performing dentistry on a sidewalk in China. That remained in my mind one of those must-see-it-for-myself things. My fantasy
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One of the best day trips from Old Dali, in China’s Yunnan Province is a bike ride along the shores of the great Er Hai Lake. A less-traveled and newly surfaced road connects a string
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I’ve seen Pandas before—in the San Diego Zoo when I was a child and the couple on loan to the National Zoo in Washington, DC. But they’re always so far away it’s hard to get
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Juno photographs Luxi at Rice & Friends Cooking School in Dali, China I had a really great opportunity in Dali, China to check out the Rice and Friends Cooking School. They just moved to
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What happens when the Chinese are charging 190 CYN ($30 US) to enter the Three Pagodas in Dali, China? I walk around the entire walled complex, take a bunch of pictures from afar, and refuse
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It wouldn’t be far from the truth if I told you I’m in China’s Yunnan Province for one reason: tea. True, the scenery is a real draw, and ancient towns like Lijiang, Shaxi, and Dali
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Every day of the week you can find a market in the towns around Erhai Lake in northwestern Yunnan Province. On Tuesday it’s in Shuanglang, on Wednesday, Shaba, on Friday in Yousuo, and in Jiangwei
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Eating Insects in Yunnan China from Bohemian Traveler. Not too much to add to this one. I’m going to let the video speak for itself. All this insect eating took place in Jianshui, in China’s
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View from the road to Dali from Jinghong The vomiting began just after we pulled out of the Jinghong bus station. We hadn’t even left the city limits and the woman behind me had already
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From the edge of Xinjie I walked into the countryside. Xinjie is perched on the mountain like a medieval Italian hill town. But we are in China’s Yunnan Province and here ethnic minority groups from
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I thought it would be fun to make a video riding the escalators in Hong Kong. Where else can you ride outdoor escalators in a city? I sped it up and my twenty minute ride
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The Zhu Family Gardens is a huge Qing-era (1644-1911) complex of ancestral building, family homes, courtyards, ponds and gardens. You can amble from courtyard to courtyard through intricately carved and painted wooden doors. Inside the
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Chaoyang Gate stands proudly in the center of Jianshui, a small Yunnan city south of Kunming. This bright red prominent structure was modeled on the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan and Yueyang Tower in Hunan.
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Watch the video of Harry making the local specialty beerfish in his Yangshuo kitchen: We spent more than a week soaking up the dreamlike karst landscape in and around Yangshuo, China. But one’s got to
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