Tag Archives: Erdos

Overseas Project: Day 11 Genghis Khan and Overnight to Xian

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 22 April, 2010. Filed under China, Teaching. Tagged , , , . No comments.
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

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 17 April, 2010. Filed under China, Photography, Teaching. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
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

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 16 April, 2010. Filed under China, Education, Photography, Teaching. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
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 Nine Train and Dongsheng

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 15 April, 2010. Filed under China, Education, Teaching. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
The last day in Beijing finished at Beijing West station, where once again a large group of foreigners playing cards and writing their diaries provoked interest from the locals. We arrived in Dongsheng around midday after a 15 hour journey on the overnight train from Beijing and spent the afternoon exploring the city a little, [...]

The trip so far (updated x 2)

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 1 April, 2009. Filed under China, Photography, Teaching. Tagged , , . Comments Off.
So far we have travelled from Shanghai to Yiwu, Hangzhou, Erdos (Inner Mongolia) and now Beijing. Below are some photos, I’ll keep adding to this set as I get time to choose and edit. We have had two really wonderful welcomes from students at Zhejiang University and Erdos College (part of the University of Inner [...]