{"id":943,"date":"2007-01-07T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=943"},"modified":"2007-01-07T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T22:29:00","slug":"harbin-%e5%93%88%e5%b0%94%e6%bb%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Harbin (\u54c8\u5c14\u6ee8)"},"content":{"rendered":"
With my illness I have not really been in the right frame of mind for posting. Harbin<\/a> was the last place where I was travelling on my own. It was a place where my use of Singaporean English again clashed with Australian English on Flickr and elsewhere. I had to laugh. In a way, it was also where the little honeymoon with the Chinese came to an end.<\/div>\n
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\nTo start with, the subject of spitting. When travelling in China in 1992\/1993, I always felt that, while the Chinese spit in every day life, that some forms of spitting were meant to be hostile. I think in Harbin I confirmed this. Of all the cities I have visited so far, Harbin was by far the most old world Chinese city. I had at least two rounds of hostile spitting. (Hostile in that they disapprove.)
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\nIn Harbin I also felt like I was in Victorian England. Why? Because the three levels of the Chinese economy<\/a> were in full force at the same time. I can imagine that in Victorian England, the upper class, middle class and lower class structure was like this.
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\nWhen in the hotel, I received several phone calls. I could head the phone ringing in the other rooms. Clearly these people were calling around every room, soliciting their business. As I could not hold a conversation with them, I could only guess the nature of the business they were soliciting.
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\nFinally, I was sick. It was cold in Harbin, and in sympathy, I caught a cold. Luckily my room had ADSL Internet access. I was unable to set it up with the instructions from the front desk and in the end a man came to help me set it up. Between us we got it to work, but it was like the blind leading the blind.
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