Tag Archives: China
Overseas Project: Day 12 Historic Xian
Sunday the students spent the day exploring the historical city (history and culture being the Sunday tradition). Key attractions include the provincial museum and the city wall. Unfortunately, the queue at the former was unthinkably long so the emphasis was exploring the wall (perhaps the finest city wall in the world) and some of the [...]
Overseas Project: Day 11 Genghis Khan and Overnight to Xian
Saturday was spent exploring two of the key cultural sites near Dongsheng, the Genghis Khan Museum and Mausoleum. The sites provided a sense of the importance of Genghis Khan to the the Inner Mongolians and to China, as well as providing more insight into the development of the cultural industries in China. On Saturday evening, [...]
Overseas Project: Day Ten Part 2 Ordos University
After our tour of Kangbashi we when to Ordos University, the second time Overseas Project students have visited. After a warm welcome, the first activity was some group discussions, where students from Nottingham and Ordos Universities shared views and asked questions of each other. Here we see Ordos students asking questions of one of the [...]
Overseas Project: Day Ten Part 1 Kangbashi
After one of our few relaxed mornings we headed to Kangbash, a new district in Ordos about 30km from the centre of Dongsheng. Kangbashi has been built as a city housing about 1 million people, though as yet almost nobody lives there. We all noticed how quiet and peaceful the place was, with almost no [...]
Overseas Project: Day 13 Terracotta Warriors