Trip plans taking shape


A little progress has been made on plans for the China trip. Eugene Yu from the Shanghai YMCA, where the Polytechnic student group had stayed in the Fall of 2001, has arranged hotel accommodations for Katie and me in Xian and Beijing. Lin Ping is arranging accommodations in Chengdu.

Some background reading is in order.

An interesting Website addresses the specific topic of tourism and cultural exchange in China. It comes from Central South University in Changsha, Hunan . The interesting feature of the Website does not consist in the breadth or depth of knowledge it conveys. On the contrary it contains very little, a fact exacerbated by the broken links. But what I do find fascinating is the attitude, apparently held with all sincerity by the students at the University in Changsha, that tourism will itself be sufficient to teach the untutored traveler something significant about Chinese culture and civilization.

I will comment on my preparatory reading from time to time.

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