a man of letters
things i learned during my mid-autumn festival (the fifteenth day of the eighth month by the chinese lunar calendar … usually on or close to a full moon) dinner with professor xu — a dean in my department at shanghai university — and his family at xian heng restaurant on thursday night:
09.14.2003, 2:16 PM · Observations · Comments (2)
u.s. tour complete!
the final installment of pennsylvania photos takes you in and around philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. and fittingly, it starts off with photos of my college friends — brothers, of sorts — getting really, really drunk. and then you’ll see all that historic crap … and chinatown, of course. click here
then we head to montana — big sky country — where the big sky was full of smoke and my longtime friend justin married laura, who, by the way, hails from mongolia. (they met at montana state university, where they both are getting doctorate degrees in subjects far too complicated for normal folk like me.) expect to see lots of drunk people — do you see a trend? — and horses and mountains and bison and elk. took a side trip to yellowstone and the grand tetons. click here
for all of my not china photos, click here.
09.14.2003, 11:35 AM · Photos, Summer Tour 2003 · Comments (1)
