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 […]
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 […]
A view of Chongqing from the Yangtze. Our ship pulled out of Chongqing the night before at 22:00—slowly leaving the bright lights of this megacity at […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]