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Book Review: Beijing Blur

With so many books on travel in China coming out these days, it’s clear that we readers have a fascination with this important country; even though not that many of us have visited China yet, we all want to read about it. And for a modern look at some “real life” for a foreigner in [...]

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Book Review: Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

Susan Jane Gilmore, now a successful writer, was a mere college graduate when she and her college friend Claire decided to buy a backpack and travel around the world after finishing their degrees. That was in 1986, just a year after I also made my first overseas trip, and their first stop was the same [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day 5/26/2009 Guilin China at Sunrise

The Travel Photo of the Day for 5/26/2009 is of Guilin China at sunrise and was taken by cardamom

Guilin is a city in China that is located over 10,000 square miles and has a population of nearly 1.5 million people. This is the Li River seen from its west bank. The first settlement in the [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day 5/18/2009 Huangshan China

The Travel Photo of the Day for 5/18/2009 is of Huangshan China and was taken by B_cool

Photo credit: B_cool
Huangshan is a city in the Chinese province of Anhui. It’s located in the Huangshan Mountains and, as you can see here, it’s one of the most beautiful locations in the entire country of China. This [...]

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Book Review: Murderers in Mausoleums

As Jeffrey Tayler points out in his new book Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing, we hear a whole lot about Moscow and Beijing in the news these days – and thousands more tourists visit each city every month – but we don’t hear much at all about [...]

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Stone Forest in Yunan China – Travel Photo of the Day 3/31/2009

The Travel Photo of the Day for 3/31/2009 is of the Stone Forest in Yunan China and was taken by lapin.lapin
Photo credit: lapin.lapin
Shilin, which is in Chinese means Stone Forest, is located approximately 50 miles from Kunming in southwestern China. The area got its name for the stone structures that are in the [...]

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Book Review Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong

With this decade’s Olympic interest in Beijing having already reached its peak, I still found a lot of reasons to read Jan Wong’s Beijing Confidential: Lost and Found in the Forbidden City. Jan Wong is not exactly a local, but she’s of Chinese origin and has spent many years both living in and reporting about [...]

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Serve the People: Jen Lin-Liu on Cooking in China

Plenty of travelers are also big fans of eating, and especially of trying the local cuisine – which makes Jen Lin-Liu’s new book Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China sound very interesting. Since Lin-Liu has gone on to found the Black Sesame Cooking School in Beijing, she seems the right person to write [...]

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Post-Olympics China Ready for Tourists

For most of us the Beijing Olympics are now just one of those fading memories of too many hours spent staring at the television, but Chinese officials are hoping that predictions of a boom in tourism following the Olympic Games turn out to be true. Tourism is a growing industry in China and hopes that [...]

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On a Boat With Mr Ding’s Chicken Feet – Book Review

Travelers who teach English as a second language to get around are a dime a dozen, and more of them are producing books about their experiences: but Gillian Kendall’s Mr Ding’s Chicken Feet is a bit more than “just another English teacher’s trip”.

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Get Etiquette Tips from Going Dutch in Beijing

It’s always good to know something about the etiquette and customs of the country you’re going to travel to – and Mark McCrum’s newest book Going Dutch in Beijing: How to Behave Properly When Far Away From Home is an entertaining way to get informed.

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