at home… in China

It’s just students waiting in line to get train tickets? Yes. And no.

One obvious thing first: it seems common for Chinese *not* to wait in line but to follow a “me first”-attitude. Obviously, it’s not always so.

Secondly, if you ever had to buy train tickets in China as spring break is getting closer, you would appreciate being cut a bit of slack. Sorry, but it’s just for the students, and only because Xiangtan train station currently doesn’t operate.

And, anyways: why does everyone have to get back home for spring festival? Read more on Chinese New Year and what it tells about China’s society here.

Looking off campus, over some of the small fields mentioned here, towards a hill which is now being leveled… It’s too much of a cliché, but change is constant in China.

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(Part 1 in a series of videos “On Campus”)

Back on campus, back to “20 sec China”… This time, just a quick impression of the “migration” of students in between classes, from classroom to classroom. If this already seems to give a view of the masses of students at a university in China, wait for what’s to come…
Still, it is a sign of the upwards mobility of China and Chinese.

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On the Li River, where people come to enjoy the scenery of the famous limestone hills – except if they can’t quite enjoy it because something went wrong. Which is obviously the case, here…

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????, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, is one of the famous scenic spots close by Lijiang in Yunnan. One climbs from 2500 m (8200 feet) and spring-like conditions to over 4500 m (almost 15000 feet), into the ice and snow of one of the glaciers closest to the equator.