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Taipei is old and new. The Taipei Main Station is the biggest and most confusing I have ever seen. You are looking for the MRT line. That's the metro. If you go to Taroko Gorge, stay one night in Hualien. They don’t say Ta-roko. They say Tai-roko. The Chinese character is the one for too. ... Details

It took me eight days to get from Verdal, in the centre of Norway, to Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi.

We’d tried to get new visas for China in Norway, but the first time we phoned the embassy in Oslo, nobody answered. The second time, the guy who answered said, “I don’t know, I’m ... Details

While I was volunteering in China I had the opportunity, on my week-long vacation to go with two other volunteers (Jessie and Liz) to spend a week with a Chinese family.

The day we were going to leave we got up, packed up all of our stuff (that we could fit into a backpack) and took a bus ... Details

I just returned from China on Oct. 21st from my second trip to China to visit my fiancee in the last eight months. This time I took my 25 year old son so we could have a last "roadtrip" before we both get married this Spring. The last time I visited i flew into Hong Kong and visited Hunan ... Details

Yesterday, in Linyi, Shandong, China on July 20th, 2004,I had an experience unlike any other in my somewhat diverse life long collection of varied experiences. A new teacher from Manchester England arrived-a right nice bloke. We get on quite well, and have stayed a little late in the office laughing ... Details

I have just returned home after a magic 6 weeks in China. My work [I was not a tourist!] to me from Hong Kong to Macau, Guangzhou, Beijing, Yanji, Jilin, Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan - back to Guangzhou and home.

From the moment I began to the moment I flew off from China, the experience just ... Details

On April the 21st 2006 the Chinese president Hu Jintao delivered an inspiring speech at Yale University. In his address he outlined some of the key elements which will drive the Chinese socialist economic reforms and opening up policies in the years to come. I was truly impressed as a foreign national ... Details

I've travelled extensively in China, seen a lot of cities and met many different people - both locals and those who were, like myself, passing through. One person who has always stuck out in my memory is a young British boy who was aiming to travel around the world before his 20th birthday. His impression ... Details

In less than a week I shall be winging my way back to China. There are friends there whom I met on my last trip and we are keen to re-unite. Strange, we met only briefly and yet the bond is deep. It has been nourished of course by emails back and forth.

Now and then people ask me how I feel ... Details

My first contact with Chinese was not in China but here in India. There is a very big community of them here - engaged mostly in Carpentry, Leather Industry, Restaurant Business. Over my 40 years teaching here, many Chinese have gone through my hands. A great number of them have made their way ... Details