Last year Business Week brought a fine article, Olympic PR Challenge, regarding the rage the summer games sponors face over issues ranging from the Dalai Lama to Darfur. It narrated well how activists concerned about the environment, conditions in Chinese factories, political prisoners, and the fate of Tibet have all said they will use the […]
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China’s bustling financial capital offers futuristic skyline that makes New York almost feel like a village. Make a point to visit Shanghai’s Urban Planning Exhibition Hall to check out the architectural wonders expected to be completed over the next decade. But aside the Bund, Shanghai’s famed colonial-era street and tour of emporium-lined Nanjing or Huai
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Travel to far western end of China, along the ancient Silk Road across the Taklamakhan Desert, via Turfan to Kashgar, from where the Silk Road caravans took the exotic goods from the East to Constantinople and the courts of Europe. In Kashgar and the Chinese Turkestan you’ll mingle among the Uighurs, while the narrow lanes and markets
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With the Beijing Olympics only months away, a massive wave of protests is sweeping the country over government landgrabs (Portfolio.com, January 2008). As hyperurbanization is fueling China’s land disputes, that much more one can appreciate a visit to China’s pastoral villages. Although the Olympic Games are certainly China’s drawing card in the coming summer, one should
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In China you can witness creations of one of the oldest civilizations on Earth and learn about nearly all religious and philosophical mainstreams of the Orient. You can visit historical sites and monuments, temples echoing with monks’ prayers as well as markets where housewives haggle for live frogs to cook for dinner. China is the
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