This is the fourth installment in a multi-part series of essays by former Lonely Planet China editor Megan Eaves. It’s recommended to read the Prologue first.
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In 2005, after travelling from Xi’an, at the ancient end of the Silk Road, to the desert oasis of Dunhuang, where monks of bygone times stopped to carve what would become the greatest treasure trove of Buddhist art in the world — the Mogao Grottoes — my travel companion Greg and I boarded a night train into…
This is the third installment in a multi-part series of essays by former Lonely Planet China editor Megan Eaves. It’s recommended to read the Prologue first.
Catch up on previous parts:
Part 1
Part 2
A giant citadel made of dried mud. I am standing on the ramparts, four storeys up. The wind is high; not high enough to threaten blowing me off the side, but high enough to rustle my hair into a knot and blow bits of desert grit into my eyes. …
This is the second installment in a multi-part series of essays by former Lonely Planet China editor Megan Eaves. It is recommended to read the Prologue first.
Nothing went as planned on my second trip to China. In retrospect, the events recounted below started to prepare me for all that would follow in my life, living, working and travelling in China, as well as learning to roll with the punches through the great mysteries of life in general. My collection of experiences in China has given me so much, and shaped a great deal of who I am. The constant…
This is the first installment in a multi-part series of essays by former Lonely Planet China editor Megan Eaves. It is recommended to read the Prologue first.
In the weeks leading up to the end of term in the spring of 2004, I was studying full time at the University of New Mexico, and working my way through school as a horse trainer. I rode horses since before I could walk, and had trained in the discipline of Dressage since I was 11, and — unlike Chinese pronunciation — being with horses was as natural to me as breathing.
One…
This is the prologue to a multi-part series of essays by former Lonely Planet China editor Megan Eaves.
I hesitate to write this. There are thousands of China watchers, Sinologists, and Old China Hands in the world, many of them brilliant current affairs journalists, political analysts, legal experts, historians and government officials. I am not any of those.
There are also billions of Chinese people, all of them expert on their own culture, upbringing and country as they have known it. I am not one of them, either. There are linguists and literature experts who can illuminate us on the…
Megan Eaves
Writer. New Mexican-Brit. Sinophile. Stargazer. Poet. Mystic. Deserts, darkness, horses, 🌘✨, walking. Formerly Lonely Planet’s NE Asia Editor. meganeaves.com
