7/3 for Mao?
Last week I visited a traditional courtyard house somewhere in the Beijing’s Hutong (China). There I saw what you see on the picture above: a historic poster of Mao Zedong above a beautifully decorated table resembling almost a shrine for worship. Although I don’t know enough about the details of China’s history of the past [...]
The Early Bird Catches the Monk
It is 6.30 am and the boy is on his way back from the daily morning puja in the big prayer hall. He was sitting there with around 70 other monks of the yellow hat sect and recited sutras to the rhythm of bells, trompeds & drums. It was cold and dark when he entered the [...]
Move your lips
Funny, no matter where you travel and how difficult it is to order a meal or ask for the right bus – smiling always works. It’s probably the strongest of all universal human vocabularies. Everyone on earth understands it. Smiling is a way to communicate with others (if you don’t believe it, think about how [...]
Lady in Gansu Province – aging like the rest of China
When the lady, strolling through a tiny town in Gansu Province (China), had the age of her grandson, more than 40 percent of all Chinese were younger than 20 years. Chinese fertility was falling already by then, but the famous “one child policy” accelerated the trend from 1979 onwards. In a few years almost every [...]
