A thief unwittingly stirs up memories of a distant past spanning generations of travel and immigration between China and Scotland. This story is the winner of the Reunions travel writing…
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Despite illness and inconvenience, a traveler is determined to experience all that Shanghai has to offer. Sleeping in the Shanghai Pudong International Airport overnight only made me think of one…
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While volunteering among earthquake survivors in rural Sichuan, a travel writer discovers that the “real” China is both beautiful and confronting. “Lushan is a nice village. Maybe one million,” our…
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30.1 million people – greater than the population of New Zealand, Australia and Scotland combined. A city of skyscrapers erupting chaotically out of cloud strewn mountains like fungus on a…
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This series details six months the author spent as a student in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, in 2014. Part 1. Part 2. We all got used to…
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This series details six months I spent as a student in Chengdu the capital of China’s Sichuan province, in 2014. Read part 1 here. When you the North Gate of…
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Vibrant blue and yellow prayer flags were wrapped around an ugly metal pylon. The thin fabric shook frantically in the wind, as if electrified by the current surging through…
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A Highway on the Outskirts of Chengdu, China. December 2016. The taxi driver attacked the road with staccato fury, charging forward into every gap, honking incessantly. This was pretty…
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We hightailed it outta Tianjin through smog that caught in your throat, erased buildings barely 50 meters away, and tinged everything with a sickly orange-brown hue. Jaded from over a…
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