Combine the overeating of Thanksgiving with the ridiculous decorations of Christmas, the Halloween tradition of going from home-to-home and the Forth of July’s fireworks, multiply by 1.3 billion, and you have something close to Chinese New Year.
Tianjin isn’t far away from Beijing, but it does have a distinctive feel. These pictures highlight the colonial architectural influences and the city’s most defining geographical feature: a tributary to the Pacific (which helps explain the colonial architecture).
Last weekend Ning and I visited her hometown, Tianjin. This city is nothing new, but like most places in China it is constantly changing.
We stumbled on to a street that even Ning, a native Tianjiner, had never seen before: Fengqing Street. This European-esque boulevard was built by Italy in the early 20th Century, a [...]
