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Abroad: South Korea

Spring 2016 China 108

Here’s a sign for a beauty salon in Seoul.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs II

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Abroad: China’s Qing Ming Festival

Winter 2014 008

Shops are offering the supplies for Qing Ming Festival, a.k.a. Tomb Sweeping Day. While most Chinese I know are very scientific in their world views, they still hold their ancestors dear and show this by burning “Hell Money” and paper pictures of items the ancestors need in the hereafter. You know iPods, iPhones, pocket watches, suits and such.

Travel Theme: Bright

Church in New Orleans
Headscarves for Sale
In Chiang Rai

 

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Shards of China

Shards

In class we’re learning about fragments, so this seemed fitting.  Sometimes jewelry or decorative boxes are made of such pieces.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple

Breckinridge, Colorado
Jinan, China
Turquoise Trail, New Mexico

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Abroad: China

At the Foreign Language Bookstore

I almost bought this, but the writing didn’t thrill me. Now I wish I had because I think I could overlook some flaws for the sake of learning about these eunuchs. They were quite clever from what I did read. Sort of like Shakespeare’s fools in that they’re every bit as wise, if not more so than their “superiors.”