Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #6: Ruijin, Jiangxi Province. Amir waxes with a humorous, anecdotal post and its six photos.

Notes while Traveling A Review of 7 Days Inn Disposable Towels By Amir Khan At first glance, this seems something of an advanced and futuristic commodity, the brainchild of some savant Japanese inventor: novel, compact, clean and hygienic. Any cursory trip to Japan leaves the weary traveler turning over this question in his head: why…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #1: money-free Chinese vending machine. The West must be very afraid, but we do not fear people-owned banks and their digital currency. 1-mn video.

How can the Chinese people and residents fear the banks, when the citizens own them all, including the central bank on down? The West NOT! Click on this link to watch the short video here https://vimeo.com/1108631250?share=copy 大陆朋友:点击此处在小红书观看短片 http://xhslink.com/m/962zf0n52VE Transcript I just got this bottle of – it’s very famous – Nongfu Spring Water. It’s really…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #2: kids and parents in a Chinese public park stream: no dangers, no threats, no bad guys. Life is safe and collective here, a freedom we don’t have in the West. 1mn video.

Video   大陆朋友:点击此处在小红书观看短片 http://xhslink.com/m/90dPR3oWMLe Transcript Public park harmony Here’s a bunch of citizens in a Hengyang public park. It’s hot here. It’s about 33 degrees, and they’re enjoying the water in this stream. It’s just nice and calm and peaceful, and nobody’s worried about their personal safety and being in danger, being attacked or aggressed…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #4: we ask you: do you prefer paying for guns around the world or 21st century infrastructure? The Chinese have made their choice. 3mn video.

Video Transcript Hundreds of new train stations and thousands of high-speed trains a day I am here in Shenzhen North Station train station. Shenzhen alone has six stations like this. This architectural style is all over China. Fifteen years ago or so, they took this plan and built literally hundreds of train stations like this…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #5: Yueyang, Hunan Province: Song Dynasty (900AD-1,200AD) Confucius Temple. Five short videos with 15 photos.

Videos #1 Transcript What were Westerners doing 900AD-1,200AD? It was called the Dark Ages: economic decline, cultural stagnation, pestilence and limited written records. China NOT! So, we are in the Confucist Temple in Yueyang. Obviously, these are not Song Dynasty relics, but these would be a bit more like it. These are obviously statues showing people here…

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