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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By wanderingscrivenor | Views [316] | Scholarship Entry
You are tired, hungry. It is four in the morning in Shanghai and you’re only just now rounding the corner of the block that your pretty sure has your hostel on it. You’re even more sure than you were about the last block. You’ve been dancing. Your feet ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Wed, 27 May 2015 | By puritto | Views [256] | Scholarship Entry
On a cold Sunday afternoon in Hangzhou,I heard the the swelling, poignant notes of the Chinese violin echoing across a park near the West Lake. It was one of the classics that every player knows. The men on the bench scarcely had an audience; they seemed ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By endlesswanderlust | Views [206] | Scholarship Entry
When I thought about it, I felt like a genius. Taking a night train to go from Nanjing to Beijing? It sounded perfect. Only pros, I could have: slept during the journey, spent way less money than buying a fast train ticket (which only takes six hours ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By db_defenestrate | Views [245] | Scholarship Entry
A week in China is insufficient. We knew this, but it was what we had time for, and funds for, and we had a friend of a friend with a couch and a floor. We let my boyfriend's best friend plan the trip for all three of us - my participation in the mapping ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By jodylundriganbwg | Views [317] | Scholarship Entry
Before I even bought my plane ticket to the Red Dragon, I began planning my journey to the Great Wall of China. As I searched through the countless tour operators and researched public transit routes, I was turned off by the warnings about the throngs ... Read more >
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Sat, 2 May 2015 | By chinaho | Views [574]
What an exhilarating moment on Thursday afternoon when the students installed their amazing bamboo pieces. Three distinctly different art works accomplished by 7 students: One drifting quietly in the wind hanging from a bridge, another describing relationships ... Read more >
Tags: bamboo installations, caa, departure, kenzo kuma
Fri, 1 May 2015 | By chinaho | Photo Gallery
Bamboo, student work, teaching art
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Wed, 29 Apr 2015 | By chinaho | Views [505]
Our day began with a struggle to create an evenly lit space in which to photograph Rob’s final works. He will be leaving all the drawings here in China, taking his sketches and preliminary drawings back with him to New York. Our hotel room is fairly ... Read more >
Tags: bamboo, fluid plans, gifts, laundry, lingyan temple, packing, tea, vegetarian food
Tue, 28 Apr 2015 | By chinaho | Photo Gallery
CAA campus, Wang Shu architecture, trees
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Tue, 28 Apr 2015 | By chinaho | Photo Gallery
final line/plane pieces, beginning bamboo site-specific work
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Tue, 28 Apr 2015 | By chinaho | Views [434]
Our last week begins with very warm weather, tough air quality, and a sense of familiarity tinged with that poignancy of approaching departure. It is a relief to be back in our hotel, doing laundry, and getting genuine greetings from the staff. Rob plunges ... Read more >
Tags: bamboo material, fujian tea, lacquer painting, studio visits, warm weather
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 | By langkawi21 | Views [682] | Comments [1]
Everything in China comes in BIG scales, the " Giant " Panda, " Super Loud " Tourists, " Great " Wall of China, " Huge " infrastructure network and " Superb " public transport systems.
Public transport, food and accommodation are fairly cheap, however, ... Read more >
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 | By chinaho | Views [578]
After three weeks of teaching and living in our hotel in Hangzhou, we splurged and went away for the weekend to Suzhou. This city is one of the fastest growing cities in this part of China, if not in all of China. The seat of local government in its ... Read more >
Tags: couple retreat garden, humble administrator garden, i. m. pei suzhou museum, local life, suzhou, suzhou museum
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