1986 China Logbook

Go to China! This is how we said in the height of irritation to a person who bothered us. That it would be far away, and this far, could…

We arrived by traininYangquanCity-​ where there was a car with two employees waiting for us.​ ​Half-hour trip to Dazhai, where we arrived…

Go north to Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi Province, early in the morning. We arrived at 11am. There is no tractor plowing crops. The terraces…

At the airport leaving for Chengdu the guide went to take our tickets; When he handed it to me, I looked and said: My name is longer than…

In the evening we left the hotel in Chengdu with our bags, took a drive, then went to dinner in a bar (|| spicy food, Guo sweated to…

Visit Shanghai outskirts to Pong Pu County (|| Commune ||). More than 12,600 people; 4,044 households, roughly 8,000 labor.

Monotonous trip about three and a half hours. Extensive rice and soy plantations. The huge, mature rice fields already reaching the…

The couple took us on a minibus. The man speaks French, the woman speaks Spanish. She is Li Yuezhen, he Deng Chitao. She seems to think…

According to the Association’s head of agriculture who welcomed us, the modules for each peasant vary greatly in size and the family does…

Everywhere there are fairs in Beijing or Taiyuan or Chengdu or Chongqing. Fairs where they sell vegetables and fruits, as they have no…

A trip to China, a country on the other side of the globe, mysterious east until a few years ago, represents for us Brazilians an…

Gazeta de Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, January 9, 1987