Blogs from Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Asia - page 27

Olympic news China Daily, the official English newspaper, had a story about water. The Olympic visitors will have drinkable (potable) running water. I wonder how that will be accomplished. No one in China drinks faucet water. Water is drunk hot to be sure it was boiled. My visitors do not want cold water, even on hot days, and none of my guests has ever said 'yes' to the offer of ice in the water. In Beijing, one day a month is queue day. Everyone in Beijing has to line up for the busses, elevators, etc., on that day. As it gets closer to the actual Olympic date, queue day will probably happen more often, e.g., every week, then every day. Before the Cultural Revolution people used to be very polite and would line up; but the ... read more

Another quick trip on the CRH bullet train and we arrived in the City of Nanjing. Nanjing served as the first capital of the Ming Dynasty and the capital during other historic periods as well. On our first day we visited Sun Yat Sen's Mausoleum and the Mingxiaoling Mausoleum (founder of the Ming Dynasty) located in the Purple Mountains. Sun Yat Sen is regarded as the National Father of Modern China and was explained to us as the "George Washington" of China. Probably becuase he was the first president of the Republic of China in 1912. His presidency was short lived but his mausoleum won't be going anywhere for a very long time... To get to the Mingxiaoling Mausoleum we walked through the "sacred way" which is a path with large statues of elephants, camels, ... read more

Hello from Nanjing. It's been a crazy couple of days and a total adventure getting here with an url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052502027.html" target="_blank"emergency landing before even getting out of the U.S. The flight over was pretty fantastic. We went straight up over the North Pole through Russia and Mongolia into China. It was a beautiful clear day and I was able to see the land and ice below. Pretty amazing. Arrived in Beijing and needed to transfer to an Air China flight to Nanjing, except Air China would not let us board their flight since United messed up everything when our flights were rescheduled so we spent a few hours running around Beijing airport getting passed off between Air China and United like volleyballs, it was pretty funny. In the end we were ticketed to get on the ... read more

Jiansu Province Kun Opera It’s not the Beijing Opera, but it’s great to be in the audience. The operas are staged in an old Confucian temple and a small theater so you can really see the details of the performers’ costumes and make up, as well as the emotions they project. This is a long blog, but my sons and daughter-in-law are coming this week for ten days, so I want to get caught up on these blogs. After this one I want to tell you about the incredible cave paintings in Dun Huang in Gansu province in the desert. But for now, read on about the magical Kunqu (pronounced koon-chew) opera. We went twice, March 24th and 31st. The first night we met a woman from the Nanjing Normal University staff (my university) who ... read more

Chinametzger Asia » China » Jiangsu » Nanjing By Christopher Bittel April 27th 2007Die Chinesen haben bei der Kaufentscheidung von Fleisch etwas andere Kriterien als wir. Hier geht es keinesfalls um artgerechte Tierhaltung oder eine ansprechende Präsentation des Fleisches. Das einzige Kriterium ist Frische, was jedoch etwas verständlicher wird, wenn man sieht, dass es hier doch etwas wärmer ist als bei und es noch nicht wirklich lange Kühlschränke gibt.... read more