Doing Things in Dongbei: Yabuli (亚布力)

Late one damp December evening, a friend and I hatched up a plan for an adventure to Dongbei, China’s unforgiving north-eastern frontier where we could sample the scenic sights and…SNOWBOARD IN CHINA….oh hell yes! I’d wanted to ride in China for a while, I mean, the shear geography of the place meant there had to [...]

On to Anji

Longing to emerge from the sooty winter days of Qingdao, I happened on the opportunity to go treasure hunting for some Yuan Dynasty ceramics in the south half of the country in a place called Jingdezhen. Hangzhou was the city I would fly into. A good friend of mine who works in Anji, an hour [...]