A line divides Urumqi city. Most Chinese will not pass south of that line, at Nanmen, the South Gate. Instead, the Han Chinese stick to Urumqi’s northern suburbs, the conurbation stretching miles and miles north, most of which was built in the past decade as Beijing encouraged Han Chinese to settle the province. Entering south …
Before reading over this post, make sure you check out the previous post, which briefly introduced the situation in Xinjiang. I have a policy. If I am traveling somewhere dangerous, I do not explain the danger to my mother. Mothers worry too much. I would recommend this policy to all of my readers. We were …
When we pitched this project, we wanted to use hitchhiking as a way to meet real people in China. We have met real people in China, as our posts on Drink Horse One Army demonstrate. However, somedays, we have had to give up on hitchhiking in order to get where we are going. Long …