James Taris made 2 one-month trips to China in 2002; one in summer and one in winter.

He expected to see a poor third world country. But what he saw was more like the next super power!

He has since made 4 more trips to China, one of the most amazing countries in the world!

This book (ebook) is a collection of travel stories by James Taris ... not as a tourist on tour will see it, but as a foreigner living with locals experienced it.

This book will definitely entertain, inform and inspire you to visit China too.

1. Zhengzhou (1st trip)
(Zhengzhou Museum)
(artist broker deal)
(bicycles galore!)
(Chinese lifestyle)
(city map in Chinese!)
(Tower 27 - tallest building)
(Chinese food)
(Chinese drinks)
(cheap Chinese beer)
(teaching English)
(learning Chinese)
2. Keifeng
(famous for its miles of street food stalls)
3. Dengfeng
(Martial Arts schools)
4. Beijing
(Summer Palace)
(Great Wall of China)
(Jade Exhibition Centre)
(Sweet Fruit Market)
(Beijing Yard)
(Chinese medecine presentation)
(Tiananmen Square)
(Forbidden City)
(Beijing Zoo)

5. Zhengzhou (2nd trip)
(blind man massage)
(catfish hot pot)
(killing catfish)
(eating frogs)
(eating turtles)
(holding live snake!)
6. Shanghai
(The Bund)
(river ferries)
(Chinese habits)
(Jin Mao Tower)
(3rd tallest building in the world)
(Dongfang Mingzhu - Oriental Pearl Tower)
(Luxun Park)
(dancing and singing with Chinese people)
(my morning routine)
(Chinese Net Bars)
(my afternoon routine)
(bus travel)
(Shanghai traffic)
(Shanghai Museum)
(toilet paper!)
(mobile phone use)
(cyclist's bright rain coats)
(umbrellas)