Category: China
SHENZHEN EAT STREETS The Chinese love to eat. They love the company of other people. They are absolutely addicted to noise. Put these together with hot nights and giant …
LOCAL TIME Shenzhen is eight hours ahead of GMT and is in the same time zone as Hong Kong and Beijing. China does not have daylight saving. CLIMATE At …
Next morning we emerged refreshed and girded our loins for the one mile walk to Nan’ao. It was hot, sun beating down on us, sweat pouring from us. We …
FUTIAN SHUI WEI VILLAGE, HUANGGANG VILLAGE SHENZHEN These two villages are situated just north of the Huang Gang border crossing and south of the CBD around Cai Tian and …
Outside the fort is a large statue, in the modern mode, of Lin Zexu. Lin was born in 1785 in Fujian. He succeeded brilliantly in the Official Examinations where …
SAFETY AND SECURITY You’ll hear and read a lot about security in Shenzhen. All we can do is tell you our own experience. We have worked regularly in Shenzhen …
We don’t go in for either ruins or Disneyland reconstructions all that much. The stones of the former don’t speak to us, nor does the plastic of the latter. …
The minute the weather turns mild enough to sit outside Parisians appear on terraces like mushrooms after the rain. Cafe owners prolong the terrace season by providing infrared heat …