Part of a series of posts detailing my adventures in China a year ago.From my journal:Monday 26th February 2007 We rose early this morning to leave at 6am to walk to Lu Xun Park, where the tomb of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, is found, and to see Chinese people up and […]
While in China a year ago, I wrote a journal of what I’d been up to each day just before I went to bed. I’ll post edited extracts from that journal, supplementing it with pictures and additional memories as I go along. From my journal:Sunday 25th February 2007Here I am, in China, in Shanghai! I […]
#teamgreg img { padding:0px; margin: 0px; border:0px;} #teamgreg { line-height: 0em; } Exactly a year ago today, I arrived in China for a two week trip with my degree course. I started telling the story on my blog last year, but only got a few days in before becoming busy with my summer holidays. I […]
From After Virtue by Alisdair MacIntyre: Abstract changes in moral concepts are always embodied in real, particular events. There is a history yet to be written in which the Medici princes, Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell, Frederick the Great and Napoleon, Walpole and Wilberforce, Jefferson and Robespierre are understood as expressing in their actions, often […]
I’ve been back in the UK for over a week now, but things have been so hectic with going straight into my election campaign I’ve not had time to update this blog. You can see some of what I’ve been up to on the campaign website, though – vote Caleb for SPI officer! As far […]
I’m currently in a cybercafe in a building overlooking Tian’an Men Square – we came up by internal flight from Shanghai, and are off to the Great Wall tomorrow!
I’ve got a few brief moments online in the hotel (it’s fairly expensive here, and I haveb’t had chance to get to a cheap webcafe). It’s amazing being here in China, and being in such a vast city. The hotel we’re staying in is literally just off from the end of the Bund, and there […]
In an hour I’ll be leaving Cardiff on the coach to Heathrow, and this evening flying out to Shanghai. I’m specialising in Chinese History this year and learning Mandarin, and Professor Greg Benton has organised for the Chinese class to go our to China for two weeks. So when I get back I’ll have plenty […]
Well, 2007 is upon us, and this is my last evening at home before heading back to Cardiff. 2006 was an interesting year: I think I learned a lot, often the hard way, so it was a bit tough at times, but full of good stuff too, and I think I’m now more at peace […]