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With other Fulbright professors at the Great Wall, in August, 1985 |
Liu Haiping and Artist Mr. Zhu--Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing |
With Sara and Sandra in the soft-seat waiting room, Shanghai train station, 9/23/85 |
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On a waiban-sponsored trip to Anhui
with Jim Friend, Xu Xin, and the Bucks |
With Deirdre West in Qufu |
Lynn Conroy and I traveled together during the break, then she went to Japan to teach. |
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With Helen and Gordon Campbell on the trip to West Lake in Hangzhou |
With Alice Barter at Yangzhou |
Eugenia Kaledin came from Beijing to lecture; Helen Campbell and I took her to Quixiashan. |
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I visited Taiwan where Jack Cannuli, SVD, and friend Patrick Hogan showed me around. |
Eugenia Kaledin and I went to Hong Kong at Spring Break |
Jack Cuff was isolated at the Hydrology College, so he hung out with us. |
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One of our first trips was to the Sun Yat Sen Mausoleum in Nanjing |
Statue of Sun Yat Sen-- in the Mausoleum |
Overlooking Qinhuai River from the old Ming City Wall |
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One of our first trips was to the Sun Yat Sen Mausoleum in Nanjing |
Statue of Sun Yat Sen-- in the Mausoleum |
Overlooking Qinhuai River from the old Ming City Wall |
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The Nanjing Bridge over the Yangtse River-- the Chinese finished it alone. |
Lingu Si Pagoda- |
Looking east along the Yangtse River from the Nanjing Bridge. |
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Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Park, Nanjing |
The Jinling Hotel--an island of luxury in Nanjing in 1985-86 |
The beautiful campus of Nanjing Teachers' College |
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Entrance to Xuan Wu Park--Part of the old Ming City Wall |
Life is hard for most. |
An old man--One of my favorite pictures |
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Tree-lined boulevards are Nanjing's signature. Bicycle traffic was always heavy. |
Young scholar growing up in a back alley. |
Seniors playing games in a back alley. |
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A medicine seller near Sun Yat Sen Mausoleum |
Nanjing has many beauty spots like this. |
and this back alley. |
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Basket and chair makers |
Girls playing Cat's Cradle at the primary school on our campus. |
Outdoor spice market. |
I was very happy to have been able to spend a year in Nanjing. A large bustling city close to Shanghai, it was a microcosm of China. I got to know Nanjing well and felt at home there, and this made me feel at home in China. |
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Playing the erhu-- |
Soldiers near our campus |
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Men pulling carts laden with huge barrels
by hand in Qufu--November 1985 |
The soft sleeper was not bad, until the man who smoked joined us. |
Women drying rice on a collective farm in Anhui, October, 1985 |
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Waiban took us to see Langyashan in Anhui Province on October 1, 1985.
Lynn and I accompanied Deirdre on a 4-day visit to Qufu in November.
In late December the Waiban arranged a New Years trip to Suzhou and Wuxi.
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Roadside diner in Qufu |
Traveling, Fall, 1985 |
Buddhist temple in Langyashan |
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Colorful minority cart on the street in Qufu |
Second Spring under Heaven Park in
Wuxi--December |
The Grand Canal runs for hundreds of miles through colorful parts of Hangshan, Wuxi, Suzhou |
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Extracting silk from the cocoons in Wuxi Silk Factory |
Sculptor in Wuxi Clay Figurine Factory |
Teahouse in Wuxi, December 1985 |
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Our New Year's Eve Dinner Party in Wuxi |
Tiger Hill, Suzhou |
Garden of Contentment, Wuxi |
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Grand Canal in Wuxi |
Suzhou Silk Embroidery Factory |
The boat for our cruise on Lake Tai in Wuxi |
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Twins in Wuxi |
Lake Tai, Wuxi |
Street Market in Wuxi |
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Shanghai Cool--1985 |
Doing laundry in the Grand Canal--1985
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Garden of Contentment, Suzhou |
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Street artist--what is he making? |
Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai |
Family at the Communal Farm in Anhui |
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Its scarcely believable how China has changed since I was there in 1985-86 |
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Shanghai streets were filled with colorful entrepreneurs. |
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A look at modern day Nanjing Road in Shanghai |
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