The Giant Buddha of Leshan (乐山大佛, Lèshān Dàfó) is 71 meters tall and its shouders are 28 meters large. It was carved out of a cliff during the Tang Dynasty and lies in front of the water, exactly at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers, in Sichuan Province. The Leshan’s Buddha is
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The eggs and tomatoes we ate in Kashgar, Xinjiang. “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night,” Galileo Galilei. I wake up, jump from the bed and try to open the door of the hotel room. But it’s blocked. I panic and destroy the lock of the door with an
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This article was written by Cathy of HanBridge Mandarin. As you already know, given the four main language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), “listening” and “reading” mark progresses of language input, while “speaking” and “writing” represent the output of a language. Your ability and level on language speaking and writing depends on the number
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What brought me to Kashgar, in Xinjiang, was the desire to experience the culture, cuisine, and architecture of this part of China, which has few resemblances with East China. Forget chopsticks, red lanterns, and ideograms. In Xinjiang half of the population belongs to the Muslim Uyghur minority. Also, there are other ethnic groups as the
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Lijiang: the South door to Tibet. This story tells how instead of getting on the public bus that from Lijiang arrives at Lugu Lake – the homeland of Mosuo people, last matriarchal tribe, – we trusted a crazy driver and reached the lake only after ten hours of vicissitudes. From Dali to Lijiang We leave
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How to pee on the street… The daily savageries Where do I start from? The Beijingers that every summer wander with the t-shirt rolled-up on the stomach to get some fresh air; the Qingdao people puking in Pijiu Jie (Beer Street); the hygiene (?!) of the restaurants’ kitchens among the draining of dirty waters, garbage
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At the Chinese Great Wall (Marta is on the right side, in the foreground). Anatomy of an interview At the end of November I received the following email: Hey, I’m Marta, I’m almost seventeen and this year I live in Nanjing, I study in a Chinese high-school, I have a Chinese mom and sister (I
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© Josh Summers In this article I’m going to review Travel to China: Everything You Need to Know Before You Go, the new book (and ebook) written by Josh Summers. Even though I have never personally met Josh, I know his website, Far West China, since 2012, as it’s by far the most comprehensive website
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Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! This post is a review of the method invented by James Heisig, the master of Kanji (the alphabet that Japanese people borrowed from China) and Hanzi, that is the Chinese characters. The introduction of Remember Simplified Hanzi by J. Heisig and T.
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Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! I’ve already discussed in my plan to learn Chinese how I prefer to rely on the “context” while learning a language. This post tells how, when I started to study Mandarin again some months ago, I was able to fix forever on
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Note: If you are only interested on getting a free quotation for a travel insurance, then we recommend World Nomads (click here to get your free quotation). Travel Insurance for China – Index Why do I need an health insurance when I travel to China? Hospitals in China Privacy at the hospital in China What
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In this article we’ll only review hotels close to the China Import and Export Fair Complex (or Canton Fair Complex), which is located in the Pazhou island, Guangzhou. If you’re interested in a hotel in Guangzhou city center or near the airport, click here. Reviews of Luxury hotels (5 Star) near the Canton Fair Complex
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This article was writter by TutorMandarin, an online Chinese tutoring service that helps students how to speak Mandarin using an their Android mobile app and PC Software. P.S. Click here to jump directly to an interesting infographic that showcases the most common Chinese surnames for each Province. Naming is an absolutely integral part of Chinese
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A Chinese group tour (the guy with the flag is the tour guide) Last year I spent some months in Chiang Mai, Thailand. But China follows me everywhere. Or at least, this is the impression I got: there were Chinese tourists at every corner, every restaurant and every coffee shop.
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This article was written by AsiaPropertyHQ.com, a website that helps Asian investors who wish to purchase properties abroad. If you buy property in Europe or the US, you can be fairly sure that your property investment will appreciate, and that you will find a tenant to pay monthly rent. Now, if you can find somebody
China is a big place. Everyone knows this – you just need to look at it on a map. There’s a huge wealth of different climates, cuisines, and age-old customs across this one land, just waiting to be discovered. But if your main reason for travelling to China is to immerse yourself in the Chinese
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Why immersion is important for learning Chinese It’s a fact that any language learner has probably heard hundreds of times. Immersion is the most efficient (and some would say the only) way to gain fluency in a target language, and Mandarin Chinese is no exception. But what do we actually mean by Chinese language immersion?
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I wonder whether in my situation she would lose face or not… Even if I wrote this article in 2012, we’re republishing it today because the topic is quite interesting This year I find my April fools joke on Repubblica.it, one of the most important Italian newspapers, while I taste my coffee and delete the
In the last years, even in countries where it was traditionally easy to find a place as a researcher or professor’s assistant (such as France, for example) have gradually reduced offering new positions, and consequently, there are fewer opportunities for young people. This is one of the reasons, perhaps the most important one, why ever
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Today we interview Wei Hsu, Managing Director of INS Global Consulting, a Shanghai-based firm that helps foreign companies and individuals to develop their business in China, handle Visa procedures, payroll management, recruitment and much more. In this interview, we’ll focus on what you need to know in order to start a business in China. Wei,
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