epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rob Gifford [Rob Gifford]

Broadband changes your life. If you’re going to bring life-changing inventions to this part of the country, it seems that some kind of basic agricultural mechanization might be a better ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

When to Go Apr–Jun Verdant paddy fields against the manmade wonders of Kaiping and Meizhou. Jul–Sep Blue pines and stained-glass windows offer respite from summer. Oct–Dec The typhoons and heat ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-05 | Author:Peter Hessler

ARTIFACT G The Uncracked Bone AFTER TALKING WITH OLD MR. ZHAO, I SEARCH FOR THE STORY OF Chen Mengjia’s life. The material is thin: no book-length biography of Chen has ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:J. Maarten Troost

There are typhoons and there are super typhoons. Typhoon Chancu was only the second super typhoon to ever be recorded in the South China Sea. And somehow, I had managed ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-03 | Author:Andrew Stone

Return to beginning of chapter LANTAU The lion’s share of Lantau’s restaurants is in Mui Wo (Silvermine Bay), but you certainly won’t starve in places further afield, such as the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Peter Hessler

III WEI ZIQI’S BUSINESS LED HIM TO JOIN THE PARTY, AND the Party in turn led him to more business. Cadres from out of town occasionally came to the restaurant, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-12 | Author:Peter Hessler

Wu River brand, Fuling hot pickled mustard tuber! It sounded much better in Chinese than it does in English, and the woman recognized it immediately. All of the Chinese were ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Tom Scocca

Within two weeks of the earthquake, Sichuan was in the Bird’s Nest, running and jumping. TV and radio were still full of disaster reports and fund-raising specials; orphans were everywhere. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

SPIRIT VILLAGE He betakes himself to yet one more village. I need him to go to an all-male place, a monastery, to make sure that Shao Lin or Han Shan ...