China
China
China travel
Museums
Travel
Visiting Beijing’s National Museum of China
The National Museum of China is the country’s main history museum, located right in the center of Beijing. Given China’s significant history that spans over 3,000 years and over 8 major dynasties, it takes a massive museum to cover all of this. The National Museum of China is indeed a giant, covering over 3,000 square […]
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China
China travel
Travel
Visiting the ancient village of Hongcun in Anhui
One of two old UNESCO World Heritage Site villages near Huangshan, Hongcun is the most attractive Chinese village I’ve ever been to (not that I’ve been to that many, but trust me, it is beautiful). Situated next to a stream, with a small lake in front of it, Hongcun is also where scenes from the […]
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Travel
Why traveling solo is great
Ever since I started traveling as an adult, I’ve mostly done it solo. By now, it’s like second nature to go on a trip by myself to foreign countries and explore cities, historical sites, or travel around. I enjoy this a lot and I hardly feel lonely or strange. While solo travel seems to have […]
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Book reviews
Books
Taiwan
Book review-Lord of Formosa
Lord of Formosa is a historical novel about Taiwan I read earlier this year. The lord is Zheng Chenggong or Koxinga, a Chinese nobleman-warlord who seized Taiwan from the Dutch in the early 17th century. Often overlooked, this was a period of time covering several decades when the VOC (Dutch East India Company, a Dutch trading […]
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