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A weekend in Harbin: Tigers, a Wedding and a city made of ice - Part 1: Eye...
Harbin is a city about 500 km north from Shenyang. It`s famous - or at least well-known - for mainly three things:1. As it was found by Russians and didn`t became part of China until 1946, you can see...
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A weekend in Harbin: Tigers, a Wedding and a city made of ice - Part 2:...
Part 1After the tigers we were eager to see the Ice & Snow Festival, but we were told to wait until it`s dark as the statues and buildings would be illuminated then and "much more beautiful". I...
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A weekend in Harbin: Tigers, a Wedding and a city made of ice - Part 3: A big...
Part 1 Part 2Day 2: Chinese-German WeddingSunday was Toni`s and Jiarui`s big day as they got married. They met during their studies in the States and decided to live in China afterwards, in Jiarui`s...
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First review and an earned vacation.
On Sunday this blog will be online for 3 months now. 25 posts were written in that time and so far viewed 1050 times. I´d like to thank all my friends, family members and other frequent readers,...
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I´m back in good (c)old Shenyang, after an intended 2 1/2 weeks vacation in Thailand that turned into almost one and a half months. Worse things can happen than being stranded in this wonderful country...
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Time to kill in Bangkok, Thailand? Here´s some "not-so-usual" stuff to do....
When you stay a couple of days in BKK you are likely to do at least the following three things:1. visiting buddhist temples like Wat Phra Kaew, Wat Pho with it`s 30m long reclining Buddha statue or Wat...
View ArticleSorry for delays.
For a couple of weeks now our internet connection at home doesn´t work as it`s supposed to. Sometimes the speed is normal, often it`s slow, and most of the time unfortunately there`s no connection at...
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Smoking in the car allowed? No. Pets? Of course.
Had a rather unusual encounter at a cab ride yesterday: The driver had his pets, two loudly chirping finches, in a small cage cramped into the middle compartment between driver and front passenger...
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North Koreans celebrate their "Great Leader"`s birthday everywhere.
Kim Il Sung ruled North Korea from its foundation 1948 until he died in 1994, first as prime minister, from 1972 as its president. The cult that he created about his persona and his family lasts until...
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China`s view is slightly different.
As there are a lot of maritime military maneuvers going on in east asian water these days, with all East and South East Asian nations, the USA and Russia involved, and China until today having 16...
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How spring is made in Shenyang.
At the end of March we had the last snow here, and as I asked my students what they would call the season we are in right now last week, most of them answered "summer". And yes, they know the...
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Saving Inner Mongolia. At least a little bit.
Until about 60 years ago, Ke´erqin 科尔沁 in Inner Mongolia was covered with grass plains and smaller forests. Mongolian nomads were roaming through this area every now and then with their herds. Then...
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If the world would come to an end, it would probably be wet.
Last weekend we had one of the worst thunderstorms in years or even ever - at least that`s what several colleagues and students told us, and they should now, as some of them live here their whole life...
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Where better NOT to park your car in Shenyang.
A little advice: When in Shenyang, better avoid parking under bank branch signs on a windy day..... or else:
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Under the bridge.
During summer, Chinese love to do stuff outside in the streets, parks, squares - or in this case even beneath a road overpass near our home. Wherever there`s enough space for a bigger bunch of people,...
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On the move.
This weekend, throughout the country the semester break starts and the students all over China start swarming back into their hometowns to be with their families for a couple of weeks. It´s like a...
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Traffic in Shenyang - The Players. Part 1.
For a couple of months now I´m owning a little electric scooter. Those became more and more popular here in China in the last couple of years, as they are pretty cheap (even a migrant worker can afford...
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Traffic in Shenyang - The Players. Part 2
Having introduced certain kinds of "civilian" scooter riders here in Shenyang in the last post, this time everything revolves around what and how Chinese can transport on two wheels.As with the...
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Beautiful Shenyang - Imperial Palace
When it comes to environment, living atmosphere and beauty, Shenyang does have a bad reputation. It is considered to be a polluted, grey, noisy and dirty industrial centre with a lack of green and/or...
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Where the Great Wall descends into the ocean - Shanhaiguan.
Shanhaiguan (山海关; Shānhǎiguān) is about half way between Shenyang and Beijing. The name of this little city with only about 20.000 inhabitants can be translated as "connection or pass between mountain...
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