by Dave Hite

18 Days in

SW VA/NE TNInternational Business Study In China

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Where did we go?

Specifically…

Beijing

Xi’an

Shanghai

Hangzhou

Spelling is a bit funny…so…

X= sh ---- Xi’an (She ann)

ang = ong like in bong – not like tang ---- Shanghai (Shong hi)

Z = j --- Hangzhou (Hong Joe)

Other interesting facts about spelling:

Q = Chee (ex. Qing dynasty sounds like Ching)C = tsU = O

Who went?

Students and Professors from UVA, Emory and Henry, and Virginia Intermont

Shanghai

Shanghai

• Population: 18+ Million (over 30-million during the day when people from outside city come to work).

• Economic and transportation hub for China

• Largest Port in the World

• Has two of the largest buildings in the world

• Home of 300 of the Global Fortune 500 businesses

SISU Campus – where we stayed

while in Shanghai

The Bund: Most recognizable symbols of

Shanghai. Site of the earliest foreign

settlements after the Opium war of

1842.

Did you know?

Smog and Growth go

hand in hand in

Shanghai

Getting pictures with the tourists…Old Rickshaws used for transportation.

People

Where they live…sometimes 2 or 3 families

per 2-BR apt.

These folks kept staring at me at the

museum, so I said “smile” and

took THEIR picture.

Boat ride on the Haungpau

river in the Bund area.

They do EVERYTHING and

ANYTHING with a

bike…text message, carry

ladders, family….

Ride sharing

Mobile Astronomy

Even decorate…

Large outdoor park near SISU Campus where our group stayed.

Places

My penpal Kate – Professor teaching HR

and English course at her University

(SISU)

Cool fact: Her son’s name was “David”

prounced Dà wèi

Go U.T.

1st Vol

on SISU Campus

The campus was very well

groomed, had lots of nice

green spaces –

yet in the middle of the city.

Other students and instructors meeting their pen-pals

Shopping in Yu

Gardens during the

day

Things to DO or SEE

Shanghai Museum

The

Olympictorch was

passing

through the

next day.

This was the

presentation

stage

Garden Near

Lhasa temple

Acrobat Show at nightNote: They catch the pole with

their legs..no hands.

Shanghai at night

Hangzhou

The Liuhe Pagoda

of Hangzhou,

built in 1165 during

the Song Dynasty.

Tea Plants growing in one of

the oldest areas

known for Tea in

China

Hangzhou is very similar to

East TN, terrain wise. I

didn’t see any Tobacco fields

either

West Lake – a top

10 tourist

destination for

Chinese

A lady selling funny

gag gifts near our boat.

Our group needed a

break in the 85-degree

heat

Laughing buddha

Temple of the Soul's

Retreat: One of the largest

Buddhist temples in

China

Laughing buddhas

Cool statues carved in

stone were everywhere

BIG Buddha's!

Real Buddhists

TEA Time. Sorting, shaking, and drying tea leaves

Our group Tea Ceremony

See the tea

Smell the tea

Drink the tea

After tea, we attended a silk show at a museum at

the heart of Silk Road which was a famous road

for silk traders.

Pottery Detailing by hand

@ Ming Tomb

Leaving Hangzhou –

Ambulances line the

streets waiting for

Earthquake victims to

arrive by train.

Beijing

Tiananmen Square

Forbidden City

The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from

the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Built from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 surviving

buildings with over 9,990 rooms.

2000 lb fire

fighting bucket

A pagoda is the general term

in for a tiered tower with

multiple eaves

The GREAT

WALL

Built in 6th Century B.C.

How long? 4000+ Miles

It has been estimated that somewhere in the

range of 2 to 3 million Chinese died as part

of the centuries-long project of building the wall

A local guide said that they were buried in the wall.

They call it the “Death Wall.”

I hiked 4-6+ miles at

different points of the

Wall.

In the Badaling section (touristy section) – you found many

people wanting to sell

postcards.

to protect the northern

borders of the Chinese

Empire from Xiongnu

attacks during the rule of

successive dynasties

So,

whythis long

of a

wall?

I visited the

Mutianyu section which

a very

different

section of the

wall than

Badaling.

Forbidden City

Many times English

translations were

interpreted a little

bit differently.

The “Birds Nest” where several of the Olympic

Games will be held.

Bike parking was everywhere.

There are even

special lanes just for bikes.

Beijing Opera

I saw a Wal-Mart

Summer Palace

Views of Bejing from Summer Palace

Food

Cicadas and Seaweed on my plate.

Actually those were pork ribs…mostly bone.

Duck head

Peking Duck

We found… Hooter Hot-wings..

yumm

Misty Buell at entrance of

Hostel in Hutong area

Xi’an

So how much does stuff cost?

Cab ride pretty much any where in the city

Memory Card for Camera

Tommy Bahamas Shirt

Back Massage

Awesome meal (Restaurant like Applebees or Cheddars)

4-star Hotel

$4-5

$5

$7

$6

$8

$40 per night

Train Ride to Xi’an

View outside my hotel window

My friend Tracy(aka: professor Meow

who teaches English.

Eating stuff on sticks

at a Chinese-Muslim

restaurant.

Night view outside my

hotel window

One of many street

vendors selling unique food

Night time entertainment in Xi’an

Last view outside my

hotel window

On this day, they celebrate

“Kids Day” with a

display in a local mall

Tour of one of the first Neolithic

villages (Banpo) which dates back to

5000 B.C. and a local terracotta

pottery factory with my guide Sarah

(dating back to 210 BC)

Terra-Cotta

Soldiers

Before unearthing, the warriors

used to be very colorful.

My guide took me to a small town

near the warriors where I met one

of the four farmers who discovered

the Warriors in 1974. This dude

was in his 70’s

Two of Tracy’s students take me on

a tour of the 10 mile wall around the

city.

40-ft high wall 12 miles around the main city

Tracy’s University – Xi’an International Studies University library

Freshmen English class where I taught a lesson about our region

“Rednecks of Appalachia” -- Thanks MSNBC!!!

Train Ride back

to Beijing

Sunset from the train ride home on the last night

Beijing Airport

The End