Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, they are located in the remote province of Gansu in northwest China. Specifically 25 km from the city of Dunhuang. At the time of the long caravans of the Silk Road, it was the oasis of the wealth of commercial exchanges....
Zhuang Zi, another tone of the Dao (I)
With the exception of a few anecdotes preserved by tradition, and whose historical foundation is far from certain, the life of Zhuang zi is practically unknown to us. We only know that he lived in the principality of Song ( in Henan now ) around 285 BC, at the end...
XI’AN (II) Inside the walls
Return to Xi'an, one of the three Chinese cities to have preserved almost all of its "imperial" walls, too. Parks have been set up around which invite you to relax. Before leaving for other intramural discoveries this time. Historic capital of the Middle Kingdom for more than a thousand years,...
Chengdu, hyper-modern but cultural
Capital of the province of Sichuan, Chengdu is a huge metropolis of some 16 million inhabitants that a flourishing industry has dredged over the decades. Resolutely modern, bristling with skyscrapers and invaded by shopping malls, it is active day and night, tireless. And when she relaxes or does tai chi,...
Zhangjiajie, an infinite world of thrills!
Located in northwestern Hunan, this city would probably be a peaceful provincial entity if…300 million years ago a spectacular cataclysm had not catapulted huge oceanic masses towards the light. Slow erosion shaped them into lofty peaks and nature took on the task of dressing them in green: plants, shrubs, conifers...
The rights of the hearing impaired
A same challenge for Europeans and Chinese… In Xiangchun Lane, Kaifu District, Changsha, there is a bakery full of love called Bahexidian, which is widely known for its owner, a German couple’s, who has helped the hearing-impaired for many years transforming this Bahexi restaurant into a Chinese non-profit organization. Last...
Xi’an, eternal China (I)
A Jewel of UNESCO for 35 years ! It is in the great plain of the province of Shaanxi that extends Xi'an, its capital and former imperial capital. It shone with a thousand lights under eleven dynasties, until the fall of the Tang in 907. But it is not the...