上海的月亮: EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF: Let’s Meet Some Real People

Let’s Meet Some Real People – #4

A Tibetan family photographed on the plains far from Lhasa.

Family on the beach, among the basalt boulders, at Sanya on China’s Hainan Island.

Climbing the Great Wall of China. And climbing, and climbing, and climbing. But I did finally earn a Hero Card for reaching the top.

The wall goes on forever and ever, perched on the top ridge of various mountain chains. It should have been quite effective at keeping out marauders. If you can get your horses through all the mountains and then to the top of a steep ridge, you might be able to use grappling hooks to get yourself over. But your horses will not be coming with you. So there you are, 1,000 miles from nowhere, and no transportation, facing lots of soldiers better-equipped than you.

Dinner under the palms, on the beach at Yalong Bay in Sanya, on China’s Hainan Island.

One enterprising businessman built a long string of restaurants and bars on Yalong Bay, including the transplanting of thousands of palm trees, to create a unique entertainment area that attracts visitors and locals alike.

On the shopping mall at Fu Zi Miao in downtown Nanjing, in China’s Jiangsu Province. This huge market area is a favorite attraction for visitors and locals alike and, on a fine day like today, will always be crowded with those who come to shop and those who come to just be there.

Visitors admiring bronze sculputures of a dragon and phoenix at the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Having a quiet drink in our hotel lobby on Yalong Bay in Sanya, on China’s Hainan Island.

The main beach near downtown Sanya, Yalong Bay boasts many 5-star hotels that resemble anything but hotels, the better to blend in with the local scenery and to avoid becoming a blight or eyesore as have the beach areas of many other countries. Hawaii and Mexico come to mind here. Sanya has taken a refreshingly intelligent approach to its development.

A business meeting in the lobby of one of the major spas in Sanya. 90% of the foreigners who visit this spa are from Russia, who consider Sanya superior to most Asian beach areas. This is so true that many street and shop signs in Sanya are in Chinese and Russian, and it is common to hear Russian spoken everywhere in the city.

Small child waiting with his parents at Cheng Huang Miao in Shanghai, for the festivities to begin for the Chinese New Year.

Another proud grandmother, outside her fruit shop in Northern Shanghai.

Being shown some fine china in a museum in Jingdezhen, the original (and still the main) source of ‘china’ in China.

Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into 32 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’. (Chapt. 2 — Dealing with Demons).

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