CHINA

Country Overview:

“Love the food, hate the government”

I arrived in China in May 2013 and left August 2020. I taught English for awhile, did my master’s of politics & foreign policy at Tsinghua University, worked for a year at China Today, and then two years at Xinhua News Agency. I spent most of my time in Beijing, but also traveled to Shanghai, Wuhan, Inner Mongolia, Shenzhen, Panjin, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xi’an, Sanya, Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

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Sunsets In Sanya

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Christmas Is Close

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Scenes from Beijing

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Colorful Beijing Sunset

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Sunset So Pretty

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Spring in Beijing

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Sunset

It’s odd to take a picture like this, and then look back at it and think “ya, Beijing is beautiful.” Too often we get caught up in the flow of things that we forget to stop, take a moment, and appreciate where we are and what’s around us.