20 January Friday SunYatSen Memorial & Taipei 101, Taiwan

20 January 2017  Friday  Taipei 101         Loretta and Harold have been giving me a crash course in Chinese language, culture, and history. I was taken to the Sun Yat Sen memorial, an enormous and imposing building (with a row of magenta flowers...

17 January 2017 Tuesday  Grand Canal Museum

17 January 2017  Tuesday   Up at six, showered, packed, breakfasted (oh yes), ordered the taxi, and ready to meet Guang at the Grand Canal Museum. Not. An hour later, no taxi. Finally, my taxi arrives to take me to the museum, just as Guang’s taxi arrives to bring ...

15 January 2017 Sunday Zhejiang University, Hangzhou

15 January 2017  Sunday “Fifty errors” reported Professor Shen in the morning email. I blanched, and while working on emails, awaited his arrival for our late morning meeting with some trepidation. But it turned out that most of the problems involved Chinese...

14 January 2017 Saturday Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

14 January 2017  Saturday The morning was spent with Professor Shen assessing repairs to “China 1908,” offering a glimpse into all the things that I do not know and have yet to learn, such as – oh, dear, too many too recount.  The afternoon was equally...