China Trip – Day 2: Shanghai Sightseeing

Part of a series of posts detailing my adventures in China a year ago.From my journal:Monday 26th February 2007 We rose early this morning to leave at 6am to walk to Lu Xun Park, where the tomb of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, is found, and to see Chinese people up and […]

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China Trip – Day 1: Arrival in Shanghai

While in China a year ago, I wrote a journal of what I’d been up to each day just before I went to bed. I’ll post edited extracts from that journal, supplementing it with pictures and additional memories as I go along. From my journal:Sunday 25th February 2007Here I am, in China, in Shanghai! I […]

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China Trip: Introducing Team Greg

#teamgreg img { padding:0px; margin: 0px; border:0px;} #teamgreg { line-height: 0em; } Exactly a year ago today, I arrived in China for a two week trip with my degree course. I started telling the story on my blog last year, but only got a few days in before becoming busy with my summer holidays. I […]

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Up to Beijing

I’m currently in a cybercafe in a building overlooking Tian’an Men Square – we came up by internal flight from Shanghai, and are off to the Great Wall tomorrow!

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Off to China

In an hour I’ll be leaving Cardiff on the coach to Heathrow, and this evening flying out to Shanghai. I’m specialising in Chinese History this year and learning Mandarin, and Professor Greg Benton has organised for the Chinese class to go our to China for two weeks. So when I get back I’ll have plenty […]

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