China Trip 2003 - Photos by Jim Crawford

Paula Fang's photos
Maria Fang's photos

(Disclaimer: I've put these pages together pretty quickly, so they are not very polished. Some of the photos need some comments; I wish I had a program that could actually add the text as part of the image, but since I don't, I am including thumbnail sketches of all of the images on this page, with notes after the thumbnails. To see the image larger, just click on the thumbnail image and it will display large in another window. There are roughly 80 images here, for a total of about 7 megabytes.

Part 1: Boston-Chicago-Beijing (Jan 23 - Jan 29)


1. Waiting room at Logan airport, Boston
2. On the airplane to Chicago
3. Grand Beijing Hotel - eating snacks before going to sleep
4. Outside entrance to Forbidden City
5. Looking 180 degrees from photo 4; Mao's tomb is in the misty background.
6. Sweeping the snow
7. Empress Raina
8. Chinese family
9. One of the many lions outside a palace
10. Lunchtime. Note Annie's gloves drying on an electric radiator
11. Every roof corner in the Forbidden City had a parade of little dragons or lions on it
12. In a quiet garden of the Forbidden City
13. View from hotel roof top. Note the red gateways to the Forbidden City near the top center and right. The largest building near the top left-center is the Chinese equivalent of the US Capitol
14. Raina near a sleeping panda at the zoo. Unfortunately, all three pandas there were sleeping
15. The long promenade at the Summer Palace
16. Near the entrance to a lamasery. The smoke is from burning incense
17. In our hotel room with Cindy, Anna's 2nd cousin (?)
18. View from our hotel floor of the inner hotel plaza. The hotel employees were having some kind of celebration. Note the stone fountain at the back with 12 statues of the 12 Chinese years
19. The Temple of Heaven
20. Breakfast buffet in our hotel dining room. Note the model of the Temple of Heaven
21. The Great Wall
22. One of a dozen stone statues on the road leading to the Ming Tombs
 

Part 2: Kunming (Jan 30 - Jan 31)


1. Outside the Holiday Inn in Kunming
2. The kids watching DVD during dinner
3. Tea
4. Kunming from our hotel window. Note all the modern buildings with unique "hats"
5. Our hotel room
6. Bronze sculpture at the Golden Temple. Note how it looks very American Western
7. Logan with his new hat
8. The three girls at the bell tower near the Golden Temple
9. Raina and her new Chinese doll
10. Noodles at the Over The Bridge Resterant (tastiest noodles I've ever eaten)
11. The Stone Forest
12. The kids and our guide in the Stone Forest
13. Opa's cousin
14. Anna in the Stone Forest
15. Lunch after the Stone Forest; the lotus root (middle bottom), fish, and lima bean (upper left) dishes were especially good
16. At the New Years Eve Banquet
17. The food at the New Years Eve Banquet
18. Close-up of the chicken dish. Note the chicken head to the left

Part 3: LiJiang (Feb 1 - Feb 4)


1. Street scene in LiJiang Old Town
2. Relative's house cubby hole cooking part of dinner for 150 people
3. Courtyard of house. Note stone design in floor
4. Some kids in the house
5. Two Naxi girls in our hotel room, plus Logan in his Chinese hat
6. Raina and Annie with a hotel waitress
7. Paula's birthday lunch in the hotel with Aiqi and her brother
8. 18,000' Snow Mtn; looks like it could be Colorado
9. Oma and Opa and the Commissioner of the LiJiang region
10. Entrance to Black Dragon Pool
11. Black Dragon Pool and Snow Mtn
12. Teresa and monkey
13. Women (employees) in traditional dress in Black Dragon Pool
14. More traditional dress, worn by tourists
15. Outside lunch resterant in Old Town; these are Opa's Mother's relatives
16. While we shop, Logan watches DVD
17. Buying two paintings from a local artist
18. Buying a book from a local photographer
19. Raina with her Naxi doll
20. Photo with Opa's brother and wife after banquet
21. Photo of Aiqi's relatives in the Fang home
22. Group photo at the school dedication ceremony; the sign is the new name of the school (the 5th character from the left is the character for Fang)
23. Snow Mtn with our hotel on the left
24. Empty lot across canal from our hotel; there were people living in this shelter and two tents

Part 4: Kunming (Feb 5 - Feb 6)


1. Lobby of the University hotel; the hotel in Beijing also had Christmas decorations
2. Food at an outdoor market (we never ate vendor food)
3. Outdoor market
4. Logan reading while we shop (other kids often sat by him wherever we were, usually to watch his DVD)
5. Dinner at Renqi's son-in-law's resterant. Note the bunnies carved out of eggs
6. Anna, Pauli, and Chris
7. Renqi, Opa, Oma, Annie, Raina
8. Renqi and her daughter
9. At the airport in Kunming coming home
10. At the airport in Beijing coming home