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 “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 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...
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 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 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 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 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...
8 May 2016 Sunday HANGZHOU Today was the day for my presentation of 160 or so slides that have been the focus of my life for these past many months, as I have been exploring the vagaries of Photoshop and learning what is possible when photos are muddy and faded and...
