Dragon Riverboat Festival – Qu Yuan

Last week, I was in China and I had the honor of celebrating the Dragon Riverboat Festival with some very good Chinese friends. The festival is called “Duan Wu Jie” in Chinese; it is held to celebrate a poet and patriot, Qu Yuan. Admittedly, I don’t know enough about...

Shanghai: The Original Gate to the City

I am told that the picture below contains the original gate to the city of Shanghai.  Clearly, I don’t know if this is true or not because I wasn’t there when Shanghai became a city, but I trust the person that took me there, so we will say this is the original gate...