Archive for August, 2004
Here in China, you will be confronted with situations you would never expect to happen in the countries we call Western. For example the trip to Hangzhou, a city just north of Shaoxing, showed me that even on a normal sixty kilometres bus-trip really a lot of things can happen and make you realize that [...]
When I left Vienna to go to Shaoxing/China (view from high above) I did never expect what actually happened there. It was not one journey, it was four journeys at once, much more interesting than I ever thought it could be.
First, the Shaoxing Summer School is a great place to find new [...]
During the stay in Shaoxing, we once visited the primary school just opposite the main gate of the campus. If you, there, take a digital camera with an external monitor and point at the ones being photographed and show them their picture on the monitor, exactly what you can see here happens!
Visiting the Lu Xun Museum (“Lu Xun’s native place”) can be a tough undertaking, especially if you visit the museum in August which means: heat, more heat and even more heat. You walk through an open-air museum with nearly no possibility to have a rest under a roof or somewhere, where there is a [...]
When I agreed to go to China without knowing the language, without having been confronted with this culture before and without actually having an idea what would happen there, I thought of China as a poor country, not very interesting at all with the only remarkable things being the remains of the past that still [...]
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