Category: China
A shop not far from Qufu’s Confucius Mansions (Kong Fu) sells craft wares and some interesting antiques. Much of the business life of Shanghai, China’s most densely populated city, …
Kaohsiung (pop. 1,400,000), on Taiwan’s south-west coast, is the capital of Kaohsiung province and the country’s largest port. It is the site of the largest breaker’s yard for ships, …
The cosmopolitan city of Canton has an enormous market where you can buy just about anything, including foreign goods, and which is particularly famous for its oddities. In any …
Travellers’ cheques and international credit cards – but not Eurocheques -are accepted in banks, tourist hotels, Friendship Stores and antique shops. Money can be exchanged in various branches of …
Having completed two-thirds of theclimjD and arrived at the junction ofthe east and west routes, the climber will now reach the Halfway Gate to Heaven, a stone edifice from …
Spoken Chinese breaks down into a number of dialects with a basic difference between those of the north and the south. There are eight main dialects in total with …
The beer is very good and comparable with lager and German-style beers, with Qingdao and Beijing the best known brands. Wine made from grapes tends to be very sweet, …
Hualien (pop. 150,000) is the capital of the Hualien district in the east of central Taiwan. Some 80,000 descendants of the island’s original native inhabitants live in this region, …
Religion and Philosophy The Chinese are not familiar with the concept of religion in a Western thought sense. For them it has more to do with school and teaching. …
Even by the Second World War the progress of Chinese industry had been very slow and in the subsequent decades it developed unevenly under a political system which was …