Yantai Hokkien Huaykuan 福建会馆
The Chinese Diaspora around the world built clan associations 宗亲会 and guildhall 会馆 to help with their clansmen that hadContinue Reading
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工作不忘娱乐 All work and no play makes J a dull boy.
Declaration of Independence
There’s a special permanent exhibition the National Gallery of Singapore. Behind glass cabinets were the set of documents that proclaimContinue Reading
Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage #4 : The Flower Path 花径
From the South Entrance of Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum 成都杜甫草堂博物馆 (“The Cottage”), there are series of exhibition halls andContinue Reading
Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage #3 : Tang Ruins Museum 唐代遗址
In the first blogpost of the series, we visited a replica of the thatched cottage. Today we examine a realContinue Reading
Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage #2 : The Main Entrance 正门中轴线
Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum 成都杜甫草堂博物馆 is the official name of the park that included the former site ofContinue Reading
Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage #1 : The Cottage 杜甫草堂
If you have studied Chinese literature in school, you would have memorised poems by Du Fu 杜甫. Even though heContinue Reading
Chengdu Dujiangyan : How it works
Dujiangyan, or Dujiang Weir, refers to an ancient irrigation and flood-control system in Dujiangyan City in Sichuan Province, which isContinue Reading
Chengdu Dujiangyan 都江堰
Near Chengdu, Sichuan there’s an irrigation system that is over 2,200 years that is still in working order. I amContinue Reading
Leshan Buddha 乐山大佛 #3/3 – By The River
For the last instalment, we go by the river and see the Buddha from its feet and from afar. AndContinue Reading
Ye Shanghai! 夜上海
Shanghai’s Fairmont Peace Hotel has a very special Guinness World Record – the oldest Jazz band alive! This was aContinue Reading
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