Refreshing FuJian province …

Known as Lhagang! Tashi Delek in Tibetan. TaGong Monastery lies within beautiful hilly grasslands ...

Plus a charity run for deaf children ...

Song and dance, late night shopping, dining, strolling ...

Beautiful sweeping scenes ...

Provincial capital of GuangDong. GuangZhou, on the Pearl River about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north-northwest of Hong Kong, has a long history and was a major starting port for the Silk Road of the Sea. The city features avant-garde architecture such as the GuangZhou Opera House (also known as the Double Pebble), the carved, box-shaped GuangDong Museum, and the iconic, and unusually feminine, Canton TV Tower skyscraper, that resembles a slim hourglass.

Far north west China ...

Bonus film - ShenZhen morning drive ...

Special memories ...

A great discussion with Daniel Dumbrill and Dan Cohen ...

YuYuan Garden, NanJing Road, the Bund and PuDong.

Sometimes in browsing the web disparate things just seem to come together, as here. Two different popular singing shows, one an established artist, one a teen on a first audition; one common theme - 'this girl is on fire'. In the first video, from 'I am a singer', I was so struck by the gusto of the performance. The cut-aways are to the other competitors; one can feel that the knives were out (in some cases) but she said 'take that', and nailed it .