The Long River

Visited the former German colony of Qingdao, a port city in Shandong province, over the Qing Ming holiday weekend of April 2016. Key sights include the German light house (Deguo Deng Ta) on Xiao Qing Dao island, adjoining Chinese Naval Museum, complete...

The Three Gorges Before 2005 Eric N. Danielson 01-31-16 These are digital scans of the 143 page section of text and photos on the Three Gorges from pp.181-324 of my book The Three Gorges and The Upper Yangzi, From Past to Present, The New Yangzi River...

Anhui's Former Capital City of Anqing [安庆] in 2003 Eric N. Danielson (01-30-16) These are digital scans of the text and photos for the 31 page section on Anqing in pp.249-280 of Nanjing and the Lower Yangzi, From Past to Present,The New Yangzi River Trilogy,...

Suzhou: Epicenter of the Grand Canal Originally posted on 02/25/2012 at YangziMan.blog.com. Revised bilingual edition posted 07-30-15. Preamble This is a text only file of a previous post with photos on my earlier site, yangziman.blog.com. The full text...

Yangzhou: A Former Rival to Suzhou Eric N. Danielson Originally Posted on 01/23/2012 with photos at http://yangziman.blog.com/2012/01/23/yangzhou-a-northern-jiangsu-grand-canal-town/. An archived screen shot with photos can also be found at https://archive.is/yangziman.blog.com;...

Two Expeditions to Kaifeng in 2006 and 2008 Eric N. Danielson (07-12-15) A Brief Historical Introduction to Kaifeng The city of Kaifeng [开封] in Henan Province [河南省] was most famously once the capital city of the Northern Song Dynasty (Bei Song) [北宋] (960-1127)...

Islam on the Grand Canal (Yisilanjiao Yanlu Jinghang Dayunhe) [伊斯兰教沿路京杭大运河] Eric N. Danielson (06-12-15) My fourteen years of travel up and down the the route of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (Jing-Hang Da Yunhe) [京杭大运河] from 1999 through 2012 led...

For the past four years I've been posting a host of well-researched articles on the history of China, complete with a huge portion of my digital photo archive collected during my travels around obscure parts of the country, on another site called blog.com...