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Friday, 5 Jul 2013 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 5 Jul 2013 | Views [1150]
‘ Chinese artists are now part of an international conversation’ , Meg explains passionately, rather than just an exotic source of post-communist-inspired art. Meg Maggio is an American who has been in China for more than twenty years. She ... Read more >
Friday, 5 Jul 2013 | Photo Gallery
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In my ‘yoof’, parks were places for surreptitious smoking, kissing girls in secret (and finding out that your father – who had wondered why you were disappearing from home – had followed you), trying booze, being sick and fighting.... Read more >
Tuesday, 2 Jul 2013 | Views [1009]
Putting novelty deep-fried scorpions to one side......
.....especially for you, KFD – and the foodies among you - I just wanted to note some of the fragrant and delicious dishes I have sampled so far.
Yuannan cuisine may rate as my favourite.... Read more >
Tuesday, 2 Jul 2013 | Photo Gallery
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It’s 9.30am and I’m sat in a coffee shop in the Central Business District (CBD) of Beijing listening to probably the worst Chinese cover version I have ever heard of Whitney Houston’s ‘I Have Nothing’: don’t get me ... Read more >
Saturday, 29 Jun 2013 | Views [1083]
So, I’ve been in Beijing for almost a week and I feel like I have walked a hundred miles around the city’s streets exploring this fascinating and intriguing place! I am off to the Great Wall for a few days of hiking tomorrow, so, before I ... Read more >
Saturday, 29 Jun 2013 | Photo Gallery
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‘ Hello, you want lady massage ?’ she shouted……. (really, nothing could be further from the truth). Anyway, I copied a trick, and told the lady in the red dress that I was probably too expensive! That seemed to work and I walked ... Read more >
Saturday, 29 Jun 2013 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 28 Jun 2013 | Views [1001]
It is no irony that the City that calls itself ‘Forbidden’ - and was once limited as the exclusive domain of the ruling emperor and his servants and eunuchs - now admits up to 80,000 visitors each day. However, it is the largest palace complex ... Read more >
Wednesday, 26 Jun 2013 | Views [1153]
I am surprised that I managed to wolf down a breakfast this morning of spicy Chinese pancakes, vegetables and deep-fried black pepper pork: yesterday, I enjoyed a selection of foods that would have given any self-respecting dietician a cardiac arrest! ... Read more >
Tuesday, 25 Jun 2013 | Photo Gallery
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Tuesday, 25 Jun 2013 | Views [1210]
I love capital cities- they are the principal organs of a country- inputting, digesting and circulating life outwards through countless capillaries of roads, tracks, pipes, cables, lines and rivers. After the monotony of the flight from Heathrow, life ... Read more >
