13 January 2017 Friday Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

 13 January 2017 Friday BIG. It is all so big. Here, in the northwest of Hangzhou, Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University is big and still being built. Zijingang Campus is one of the five that comprise Zhejiang University, which is one of the three most important...

11-12 January 2017 Ashland, Oregon, USA to Hangzhou, China

11-12 January 2017 What a great beginning for my China trip! For days, Ashland has been in the grip of snow and ice and ice and snow, the roads too often a skating rink, the cars twirling dervishes, not even the buses running. But Wednesday, just rain and the snow all...

11 May 2016 Wednesday Hangzhou, China

11 May 2016 Wednesday HANGZHOU Alibaba and Jack Ma are famous not just in China, but throughout the world. And I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the Alibaba campus today, that is, the camps on the south side of the Quintang River. It was large,I thought, but...

10 May 2016 Tuesday Hangzhou China

10 May 2016 Monday  HANGZHOU Aizezi picked me up at nine this morning , and off we went to see Ancient Street. We took the boat that runs on the East Canal from the center of town for a ride of about an hour to reach the East Canal”s end, from where we could...

9 May 2016 Monday Hangzhou, China

9 May 2016 Monday  HANGZHOU The rain spat a bit but waited util we were all back at our respective home nests before it came gently, early in the evening. Still, it was a very dark day. Gray light can make good photographs, but this was very gray. At nine...