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Cult of Development
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 3 May 2010
The text on this placard roughly translates as “Only development makes hard sense”, or “Development is the ultimate truth”, written in bold red characters above a Qingdao skyline filled with skyscrapers, an ageing Deng Xiaoping, and an oddly photoshopped border of flowers. Qingdao is sprinkled with streets named after their intended specialization: Beer Street, Wine [...]
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Happy May Day
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 2 May 2010
In Europe, International Worker’s Day is traditionally celebrated with political demonstrations organized by workers’ unions. In Qingdao, where we’re spending the holiday while waiting for our visa extensions, what should be the ultimate communist holiday was this year marked mainly by a sharp rise in hotel room rates, flower arrangments that spell out “庆祝五一”, and [...]
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More about Qingdao - A Winter Day in this interesting city…
Blog: Travel China and the World - 18 March 2010
This is my second posting from Qingdao — I spent three days here and enjoyed a stay at the Grand Regency Hotel on Hong Kong Street (丽晶大酒店), which is a nice hotel for the price. The rooms are large and nicely furnished (although the overall furnishings are a bit tired). Here is a [...]
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Qingdao - first review since 2006 - JiMo Shopping Area
Blog: Travel China and the World - 6 March 2010
Earlier today I landed in Qingdao following a brief flight from Beijing. I was greeted by the a very cold winter Qingdao day — temperature of 1C. Of course I flew in from Beijing, which is not exactly a balmy place either, so I should not be complaining too much…but I just don’t [...]
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Qingdao: Confronting Identity in a German Town in China
Blog: 12FOOT3 - 21 September 2009
Since Tibet was out as our next destination, where to next? Mongolia? Train tickets were sold out for the entire week. Xinjiang? Tickets also sold out (and thank goodness we didn’t go because the deadly protests in Urumqi broke out a few days later). Here’s how we decided on our next stop: we consulted Weather [...]
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