Recently, I was invited to be a guest author on the website TransitionsAbroad.com, an online magazine that provides helpful and timely information about living and traveling abroad. This month, the well known and award winning website featured a webzine on Asia which includes an article that I wrote entitled This is China, Living Abroad in a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘china travel’
The Paradoxical Land of China
Posted by Robert Vance on August 27th, 2008
Posted in Living in China 
Tags: China, China information, china travel, chinese history, lhasa, Living in China, Study Chinese, Tibet, travel in China 
No Comments »The Yangtze River of China
Posted by Robert Vance on July 22nd, 2008
For thousands of years, the Yangtze River has been both a blessing and a curse for the millions of Chinese people who have lived within its reach. Originating from a glacier in the Tibetan plateau, its powerful waters dip South into beautiful Yunnan Province and then run through Central China all the way to Shanghai and [...]
Weaning Myself Off China Travel Guidebooks
Posted by Robert Vance on July 8th, 2008
I always used to carry a Lonely Planet Guidebook with me wherever I traveled. Then one tragic day, while I was journeying in western India, I discovered that I had left my precious guidebook in the hotel where I had last stayed. I desperately called the hotel and begged them to send me the book. [...]
