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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Tianjin 2

Tianjin 1

Tianjin is a small city that's only 30 minutes away by bullet train. Figured I'd check it out. Has a lot of European style architecture, as one of the main features of the city is a European district. Reminds me a lot of a smaller Shanghai.