1. Susan Daly’s China Photos- 2004

2. Terrain from 37,000 ft.

3. Calligraphy Lecture

5. Summer Palace Symbol of Emperor & Empress

6. Dowager Empress Cixi’s stone boat

9. Morning Tai Chi at Beijing University

10. Lamma Temple Built by the Emperor for the Dali Lama of Tibetan Buddhism. Whenever the Dali Lama visited Beijing, he stayed in this temple. It is still an active Buddhist temple.

11. Lamma Temple offering

15. Temple of Heaven

17. Thunder storm

18. Deluge at Temple of Heaven

19. A Beijing Policeman on duty in Tiananmen Square.

20. Tiananmen Gate Entrance to the Forbidden City

21. Mao Zedong’s Tomb

22. Beijing’s Forbidden City The Forbidden City was built by the Ming dynasty. Once it was completed no commoners were allowed inside under penalty of death. The city was reserved for the Emperor and his family. An army of imperial servants and eunuchs also lived inside to take care of the imperial family. Only the Emperor may have a golden roof.

24. Entrance to the Hall of Supreme Harmony where the Emperor held audiences.The dragon way was to impress visitors.

26. Roof Guardians

27. Imperial Dragons as downspouts

29. Dragon detail

32. Gate at entrance to the Wall.

33. Great Wall Badaling section outside Beijing

34. Ancient graffiti in Chinese !

35. Locks lined the Great wall along certain sections. These are promises kept by family members.

38. Our first Chinglish sign

39. It IS as steep as it looks !

40. Painting inside a temple near the wall.

44. High School visit Welcome by a student.

45. Ms. Daly talks to a freshman.

47. Xian The western capitol Historically this city was the starting point of the Silk Roads. It is a crossroads of cultures as a result of cultural diffusion.

48. A farmers grave in his field.

49. Sunflowers from our train

56. Tang Museum

57. Huaqing Winter Palace

60. A Daoist monk

61. A six foot dragon detail

62. Big Wild Goose Pagoda

64. Mosque at Xian shows spread of Islam to China along the Silk Roads.

67. The first Emperor was Shi Huangdi who created the unified nation of China. It takes the name of his dynasty, the Qin. He also left behind a massive tomb complex with over 7,000 lifesize soldiers made of terra cotta.

68. Pit # 1

69. An officer and his horse

70. An archer without his bow.

71. Pit # 2 Ceremonial Guards

72. Terra Cotta soldiers waiting to be put back together. This is a massive job that will take many years.

73. Silver & gold bridle

74. An ad for the movie “ Troy “ in Chinese.

75. Making noodles by hand in a few minutes.

76. The little town of Baodingshan

77. Buddhist lanterns

79. Baodingshan Grotto in Dazu.China 10,000 religious statues carved in rock

80. Confucius and a guardian demon

81. Bodhisatva Guanyin

82. A grumpy looking court official.

83. In the next slide, Jeff,our guide is explaining how the son is carrying his elderly parents which shows the influence of Confucian traditions.

85. Buddhist Wheel of life being held by a demon. He can’t stop it.

86. 3 Buddhist figures

89. Our guide Jeff is explaining the carvings we are learning about at Dazu.

90. Leshan has the largest carved stone Buddha in the world. It is best seen from the river. 100 people could fit on the top of Buddha’s hand.

92. Leshan

94. Chinglish

95. Sanxingdui Neolithic Bronze Museum

98. A 14 foot tall bronze tree with many branches.

100. Very large face masks in bronze.

101. Chengdu,China is the gateway to Tibet. It is also the area where the panda lives and the World Wildlife Panda Breeding center is there.

103. Panda Group

104. Nap time !!

105. What a delight this was!

108. Chengdu’s Brocade River.

109. A typical family compound in the country.

110. The dam at Duijiangyan was built 2200 years ago to stop the flooding which was destroying the crops on the Chengdu plain. It is still being used and making that plain a very fertile area. The simple bamboo technology was effective and ingenious.

111. Looking towards a new dam being built upstream.

113. A swinging bridge across the river.

115. Two Kings Daoist Temple honors the builder of the dam.

117. Incense burner and a map of the dam

121. Nanjing River Bridge

122. Red Guards holding up Mao’s Little Red book.

123. Nanjing Massacre Museum

125. A huge pebble field represents the victims.

127. Sun Yixian’s Masoleum in Nanjing

129. Democracy & Livelihood

130. Nationalism

131. Ming Dynasty Sacred Way Nanjing,China

133. The Chinese unicorn

138. Map to the Ming Sacred Way

139. Nanjing Museum Jade Gallery

144. Shanghai

146. Shang Bronzes Shanghai Museum Bronze Gallery

154. Shanghai Urban Planning Center

155. A crowded street scene in Shanghai

156. Yu Chinese Gardens

160. The Chinese dragon does not breathe fire.It carries a pearl in its mouth. If it loses that pearl it will die.

164. Where Chinese Communist Party was started.

165. Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai. The Chinese Government intends for Shanghai to be the economic center of all Asia and is building to reach that goal.

166. Shanghai from the Jin Mao Tower. Pearl TV tower in front with round bumps.

167. Typical apartment buildings

168. Pepsi & Starbucks signs

169. Typical small store owned by a family

170. Jade Buddhist Temple

172. Hong Kong does not feel like China. It clearly shows the influence of the British. From the custom of afternoon tea to driving on the other side of the road, Hong Kong feels western and is making money as fast as it can.

173. Hong Kong from the air

178. High Tea at the Peninsula Hotel A time to say goodbye to our traveling friends.

179. Flying over China from 37,000 feet.