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 [...]
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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 »Bargaining in China to Avoid the Foreign Discount
Posted by Robert Vance on August 8th, 2008
During my early days in China, I often fell victim to what other ex-pats in China have called the “foreigner discount.” Whether buying fruit, pens, taxi rides, or dogs from the pet market, I frequently discovered later that I had paid 5 or sometimes even 10 times more than a local would have paid. This [...]
The American and Tibetan Terrorists in China
Posted by Robert Vance on May 7th, 2008
“When I first heard about the explosion on the bus in Shanghai, I immediately thought it was America or some terrorists from Tibet trying to attack us,” one of my Chinese students recently remarked to me. The explosion, which claimed the lives of three people in Shanghai on Monday, is reported to have been caused by flammable [...]
My Journey to Mount Everest
Posted by Robert Vance on April 13th, 2008
While I did not climb Mount Everest when I arrived at its base in 2006, my journey to the world’s tallest mountain left me feeling a little bit like I had scaled its heights. In fact, there were different times during my journey that I almost gave up on going to see it. Traveling alone in Tibet as [...]
Posted in Traveling in China Tags: Chinese Travel, Climb Everest, lhasa, mount everest, Mt. Everest, Shigatse, travel in China 1 Comment »
