9 November 2015 Monday     Meeting Mr. Lin & Night Markets

9 November 2015 Monday Meeting Mr. Lin & Night Markets

上海 SHANGHAI 9 November 2015 And so it all worked out very nicely. The Astor House Hotel did not have our Monday night reservation. Mr.Lin could only come on Monday. Dear Mr. Lin, who can speak Chinese and who lives in China and who can read kanji and who functions in...
8 November 2015 Sunday    TRYING to Leave Hangzhou

8 November 2015 Sunday TRYING to Leave Hangzhou

 杭 HANGZHOU Sunday  8 November 2015          Earlier in the morning, we walked through an old part of Hangzhou and saw the tourist shops  and tourist park surrounding the Drum Tower, whose site has one of those 2000-year-old histories attached to it. That history...
7 November 2015 Saturday    Arts and Crafts Museum & Jingci Temple

7 November 2015 Saturday Arts and Crafts Museum & Jingci Temple

杭 HANGZHOU Saturday  7 November 2015 Intention is all, is it not? It took an hour to print out a pdf. I still do not understand why. My good software engineer friend Hua Pin Shen, who knows everything there is to know about computers and software and electronic...
6 November 2015 Friday      China Photos & YMCA

6 November 2015 Friday China Photos & YMCA

 杭 HANGZHOU Friday  6 November 2015 A catch-up day on the computer, studying and comparing the 1908 photos and correlating them with the events discussed in the Clarence James Gamble handwritten journal. (And I took a long nap.) I had noticed initially that the Gamble...
5 November 2015 Thursday       Grand Canal Museum & West Lake

5 November 2015 Thursday Grand Canal Museum & West Lake

杭 HANGZHOU Thursday  5 November 2015 Good Professor Shen arrived with taxi at 9:30. Off we tore into the traffic. I must look up the accident rate. How can these people not have an accident every block? But, no. Cars skim by each other, always within inches of each...