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The Harmony Express
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 5 February 2010
I’m now back in Wuhan, having made the last leg of the trip in style on the newly-opened Harmony Express (和谐号), a high-speed train that connects Guangzhou to Wuhan in around 3 hours, making it the fastest in the world. It’s more expensive than the slower sleeper train — 490 rmb for a ticket in [...]
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Ant people in Wuhan
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 11 January 2010
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the “ant people” (or “ant group”, 蚁族, which incidentally didn’t then pop up as a word on my Sogou Chinese input program, but now does). “Ant people” refers to young people with a high level of education who work low-paid jobs and live together in crowded apartments or [...]
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Hung out to dry
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 9 January 2010
It started a couple of weeks ago, with fish. On a sunny day, there they were, hanging in a tidy row on a stick by the side of the street. A few days later, someone had hung up some pieces of meat to dry. Now it’s everywhere — fish, chickens, beef, pork, sausages, all marinated [...]
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Why Wuhan: My top ten list
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 31 December 2009
The year and the decade have come to a close, and the thing to do at times likes this is to compile a top ten list (or 24 top 10 lists, if you want to be as cool as China Daily). Not wanting to be left off the bandwagon, I’ve put together my own list [...]
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What did the Wuchang fish say when it swam into the wall?
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 27 November 2009
We just got back from a trip to the Three Gorges Dam and a boat trip on a section of Xiling Gorge, between the Three Gorges Dam and the Gezhou Dam. I have to admit, seeing the dam in person, you can’t help but feel impressed. It’s amazing that it was even possible to build [...]
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China: People of the Middle Kingdom
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 30 October 2008
I've spent the past week in China with colleagues from the Australian Society of Travel Writers.
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