by Suelin | May 29, 2023 | china 2023
In April, I visited the 2023 Beijing Art Expo, titled REUNION. The first booth was the International Children’s Alliance Fund for Intangible Cultural Heritage, jointly sponsored and established by 21 families. Artworks from youths as young as 6 showed intelligent...
by Suelin | May 26, 2023 | china 2023
My grandmother often cautioned that an empty bag cannot stand up when I attempted to do homework/studies without fortification. On days requiring physical strength or endurance, the adage changed to ‘an army marches on its stomach.’ In everyday context, this statement...
by Suelin | May 24, 2023 | china 2023
We spent roughly a week in Shaanxi Province, visiting Yan’an and Xi’an cities. We were primarily there to cover the 2-day China-Central Asia Summit on 18-19 May in Xi’an, a meeting critical toward a stable, prosperous, harmonious, interconnected Central Asia through...
by Suelin | May 19, 2023 | china 2023
During the extended Labour holiday, I took the subway and walked 2 blocks to the National Art Museum of China, anticipating art stimulation of my grey matter. I was stopped by museum security, who very kindly said, no reservation, no entry. Nutz. A week later was the...
by Suelin | May 19, 2023 | china 2023
On Wednesday, 17 May, we visited the Xi’an Aiju Grain and Oil Industrial Group. Edible oils—rapeseed, soybean, sunflower, olive—flour and honey products from Kazakhstan were on display. The Group was founded in 1934 and also functions as a social and labour practice...
by Suelin | May 17, 2023 | china 2023
For the next few days, I am in Xi’an, China’s ancient capital city, and famously, home of the Terracotta warriors. I remember reading about the discovery of the Terracotta army when I was still wet behind the ears, and wondered if I would ever get to see one of the...
