I have been asked numerous times to make the expedition report more widely available. You can download it here in pdf format if you wish. SummaryTwo expeditions were carried in 1992 and 2012 to three villages on the Li River between Lang Ti and Xing Ping in the Guilin area of South China. This expedition… Read More »
I hadn’t even noticed the absence of Ofo shared bikes on the street. Once upon a time there were many companies littering the streets with shared bikes. The pavements were littered with multi-coloured QR-coded metal and it was sometimes hard to navigate your way around, and much more difficult to find a parking space for… Read More »
I have written on more than several occasions about the disappearance of the lanes of old Shanghai, the wiping out of communities of people who live in them and forced resettlement to Songjiang or other satelite town. The saddest of these places are Maoming Lu in Jing’an area and in the old town of Laoximen.… Read More »
Apart from the Purple Mountain, the other things I wanted to do was to catch up with some old Chinese and foreign friends in Nanjing before I leave China. Bamboo Garden is very close to Nanjing South Station and as I arrived there I remebered the time when I went to see it being built… Read More »
I hadn’t been to Nanjing for years and as I am running down my time in China, and as it was May holiday, it was an ideal opportunity to go to see the old place again. The crowds are only to be expected and the Chinese are good at moving arge numbers of people around… Read More »