I’ve just returned from an all-too-short trip to Qinghai where the weather was a little cooler than Tianjin and Beijing. There was snow on Laji Shan (3820 meters) and cold rain in the lower valleys on several days. On a trip into a nomadic region to visit a water project I climbed the slippery muddy [...]
Entries from September 2008
A Few Photos From Qinghai
September 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Blue Skies and Red Eyes
September 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s been quiet here lately for a variety of reasons, and the most recent reason has been that I have been out in Qinghai province visiting friends. I had been getting quite tired of the extended summer heat, which this year seemed to stretch on a bit longer than recent years. Perhaps it had something [...]
Throw the Beebs From the Boat
September 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Now that BBC News still remains unblocked here in China, we get treated to BBC video reports like this one by Damian Grammaticus from the flooding river Kosi in India. This fifty-second clip is indicative of a long-standing and, as yet, irremediable problem that dogs the business of reporting the news. This one, though, is [...]
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