Showing posts with label Hangzhou. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hangzhou. Show all posts

Thursday, July 2, 2009

CHINA THEN & NOW: ON THE GRAND CANAL

ON THE GRAND CANAL


© Gwendolyn Stewart 2009; All Rights Reserved

HANGZHOU, CHINA, 1981

Saturday, June 6, 2009

SURFACE & SUBSTANCE: HANGZHOU, CHINA

SURFACE & SUBSTANCE 

HANGZHOU 1981 
 
COMPLIMENTS 
TO WEST LAKE AT DAWN

Out wandering in Hangzhou early in the morning on my first trip to China, I meet a man standing at West Lake at dawn.  "It is very beautiful," I say. 

The local sets me straight:  "Yes, but the housing in town is very poor.