Notes from China

Hong Kong - Zhuhai - Chengdu - Xiamen - Shanghai - Dalian - Beijing

穷则变，变则通，通则久。
“When things reach an extreme, they change; with change comes adaptability, and through adaptability comes continuity.”

—《易经》(Yì Jīng / I Ching) – Book of Changes

塞翁失马，焉知非福。
“When the old man from the frontier lost his horse, how could one have known it wouldn’t be a blessing?”

—《淮南子》(Huainanzi) – from the Western Han Dynasty

彼一时，此一时。
“That was one time, this is another.”

— 庄子 (Zhuangzi)

The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'

— Bob Dylan

True wisdom washes over the West-East divide, puts a plug in politics, and unshackles what you feel. There’s no better way to find these truths than to travel, read, and listen to music voraciously.

Do I have wisdom to share? I don’t know. I’m still working on my article about China—the country that changed my perspectives at the same impressive (and possibly perilous) rate it changed its GDP.

Those deep reflections and research will come out next week. For now, here are my unfiltered, premature thoughts and experiences while I was in China.

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Hong Kong

Zhuhai

Chengdu & the Sishuan Region

Xiamen

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Shanghai

Dalian

Beijing

The People & Food

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