China visit March 2006


View from room

Me at the front gate

24 bridge

24 bridge with me

24 bridge with me

a pagoda

a pagoda

boat like quay in pagoda

pagoda

boats an lake

bridge

White Pagoda

Lion on White Pagoda

White Pagoda

5 Pagoda Bridge

Me on 5 Pagoda Bridge

From 5 Pagoda Bridge to Fishing Pagoda

5 Pagoda Bridge

Me and 5 Pagoda Bridge

Pool near room at night

Lecture room

Lecture room

Jinquing and Fredrik at lunch

Xiaowei and Jinquing at lunch

Jinquing, Fredrik, Lennart and Nick at lunch

Karoke night

Karoke night

Karoke night

Karoke night

Lecture hall from back

Other people being trained

One of the buildings in the complex

Steamboat dinner

Steamboat dinner

Pagoda in the centre of Yangzhou

Lady practicing drum playin

Map of Slender West Lake park

Five Pagoda Bridge and its reflection

Five Pagoda Bridge and its reflection

People doing tai chi

Twenty-four bridge and its reflection

Me next to the sign at the front door

At dinner in the town: Xiaowei and Jinquing

At dinner in the town: Fredrik, Lennart and Nick

At dinner in the town: Fredrik, Lennart and Nick

Nick Reddan phoneticly in Chinese

The sign welcoming the experts

Closing ceremony backdrop

View from room — drained pond

Closing banquet Mr Li, Jinquing and Lennart

Closing banquet lots of food

Experts showing inexpertise in singing

Experts showing inexpertise in singing

Experts showing inexpertise in singing

Mr Li at Karoke

Yangzhou Museum and China's Block Printing Museum exterior

Yangzhou Museum and China's Block Printing Museum exterior

Statue in front of Museum

Main entrance to Yangzhou Museum and China's Block Printing Museum exterior

Statue in front of Museum

Yangzhou railway station

Enlarged reproduction of funery object in Museum

Pig pots

One of the earlier rulers in Yangzhou

Hard pillows

Bowl with fish design on inside

Model of boat building yard

Ivory belt decorations

Carving of people in boat

Wooden blocks used for printing

Display of how paper was made

Model of boat and dock

Development of movable type in 1297

Paper making — catching the pulp to form sheet

Carving a printing block

Foyer of the Museum

Painting of man

Large dug-out canoe

Vary rare dragon vase

Vary rare dragon vase

Light well at museum

View from front door of museum

Street in old quarter of Yangzhou

Reconstruction of Shrine in entrance of merchant's house

Inside merchant's house

Screen inside merchant's house

Bed inside merchant's house

Kitchen inside merchant's house

Wall opening in garden of merchant's house

Wall opening in garden of merchant's house

Moon festival room in merchant's house

Wall opening in garden of merchant's house

Passage way beteen buildings in merchant's house

Passage inside women's quarters

Good luck stepping stone into garden

Boat' room in Merchant's house

Ex-charirman Jiang Zemin original house

Crossing a branch of Yangzi river on road to Nanjing

A bridge on the road to Nanjing

Crossing a branch of Yangzi river on road to Nanjing

         
         

© Nick Reddan 2006