Piano Museum

Gulangyu Island is known as the piano island because people here love the piano. With it's colonial heritage and the number of churches and schools in the early 1900's, music and pianos were introduced, The enthusiasm for music spread . Many piano families have since then come into being and produced accomplished musicians. Gulangyu is famous for being home to China's largest piano museum, where we were not supposed to take pictures, but how can you resist with beauties like this?

Winter holiday: Xiamen, ChaoZhou, Guangzhou

January 30th 2011
Most of our colleagues at Maple Leaf planned on hitting the beaches of southeast Asia and other tropical places, but how can we leave China without experiencing the ultimate Chinese festival?? Spring Festival (Chinese New Years) in China was the goal for this year's winter holiday. That plus our good friends from Calgary wanting to spend some of their travel time with us set the agenda for our fi ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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