2009 – 2010

Orient Express

A blog I kept while studying and working in China. Forty-seven posts, two hundred and sixty-seven photographs, written as it happened.

Start here · 2009-09-16

Mountain Resort- Encounter with an Ancient Caligraphist

Along the shore we walked up to this small table on which were various scrolls of calligraphy. Behind the table sat an old man in traditional dress, looking out over the lake. I pointed at a scroll and asked how much, to which I g…

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All forty-seven, in order

2009-08-02 Gearing Up for Beijing 67 words · 0 photographs 2009-08-02 62 words · 1 photographs 2009-08-27 CCM Intern 338 words · 0 photographs 2009-08-28 Shipping Out 233 words · 1 photographs 2009-09-03 Arrived in Narita 417 words · 0 photographs 2009-09-03 Arrived in Beijing 1406 words · 4 photographs 2009-09-03 Venturing Out in Beijing 1651 words · 1 photographs 2009-09-03 Trip To Chengde 363 words · 2 photographs 2009-09-05 Trip to Chengde—The Great Wall 514 words · 3 photographs 2009-09-05 Arrived in Chengde 728 words · 5 photographs 2009-09-16 Chengde- 1st Night 367 words · 5 photographs 2009-09-16 Chengde- Last Night 266 words · 0 photographs 2009-09-22 Back in Beijing- Pizza and Generosity 1516 words · 5 photographs 2009-10-08 My Room- Shaoyuan 406 359 words · 5 photographs 2009-10-08 Zoe 441 words · 3 photographs 2009-10-08 The Print Shop 611 words · 1 photographs 2009-10-08 Studying Lakeside 125 words · 4 photographs 2009-10-08 The Summer Palace 181 words · 5 photographs 2009-10-09 Course Overview 635 words · 8 photographs 2009-10-09 The Silk Market 950 words · 4 photographs 2009-10-27 Wu Tao 652 words · 3 photographs 2009-10-27 Interning at Carbon Capital Management (CCM) 515 words · 10 photographs 2009-10-27 Commuting in Beijing- the Good, the Bad, and the New 759 words · 5 photographs 2009-10-27 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China 590 words · 2 photographs 2009-11-22 Binhai Aircraft Carrier 516 words · 5 photographs 2009-11-22 Korean BBQ and Street Vendors 512 words · 4 photographs 2009-12-22 Road to Inner Mongolia: Hengshan Hanging Temple, Yungang Buddhist Caves, and driving through Rural China 769 words · 13 photographs 2009-12-22 “Welcome to Nei Mongol” 862 words · 6 photographs 2009-12-22 Resonant Gorge- Camels, Sand-boards, and ATVS on the Gobi Desert 368 words · 9 photographs 2009-12-22 Riding out on the Mongolian Grasslands 773 words · 16 photographs 2009-12-22 Fang Mountain- Monkeys, Monks, and Gondolas 214 words · 12 photographs 2009-12-22 Beijing’s Hutongs 562 words · 9 photographs 2009-12-22 Chaoyang Acrobatic Show 226 words · 0 photographs 2009-12-22 Economic Trip to a Rural Village 1136 words · 9 photographs 2009-12-22 Silk Market Revisited 90 words · 3 photographs 2009-12-22 Boston College Social- Beijing 290 words · 1 photographs 2009-12-22 Connecting with Ex-Pats 93 words · 1 photographs 2009-12-22 Halloween in Beijing 491 words · 1 photographs 2010-01-13 Cait Comes to Visit 511 words · 5 photographs 2010-01-13 Cait Comes to Visit continued 614 words · 11 photographs 2010-01-13 Farewell Dinner with the CEO- Old Stories and New Dreams 565 words · 1 photographs 2010-01-17 Study Trip: From Beijing to Xi’an 894 words · 8 photographs 2010-01-17 Study Trip: Xi’an’s Muslim Quarter, Chengdu 381 words · 25 photographs 2010-01-17 Study Trip: From Leshan to Lijiang 862 words · 20 photographs 2010-01-17 Study Trip: Venturing Outside Lijiang, Dali, Kunming, and Back Home 390 words · 23 photographs 2010-02-09 A Final Word 947 words · 0 photographs