China22 Oct 2009 09:56 am
What is it with this country and the constant noise!? It starts just after dawn, when the building site next to the campus resumes work – at 5.45am!
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October 2009
China19 Oct 2009 05:53 pm
Ningbo Postcards – Autumn edition
There’s nothing this country can do better than put on a big show. And similarly, there’s nothing it lacks more than to be able to create ‘atmosphere’. Restaurants, on the whole, consist of big square rooms that are usually fitted with huge big neon lights on the ceiling to scare away – well almost anything. Transactions of all sorts are, by and large, functional and even the weather in Ningbo switches from summer to winter and back to summer almost over night, leaving little room for the gradual change of nature that makes autumn and spring so attractive (like the smells of roasted chestnuts, decaying autumn leaves and the air getting colder). And so the notion of ‘atmosphere’, as we would know it in the West, is often entirely non-existent and lost on your average local person.
China05 Oct 2009 06:07 pm
I could also have called it: lost in translation – big time! Anyway, something funny went on, when the signs below were designed.
the most extraordinary type of Chinese rural dwellings in the mountains of Fujian province.
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