Xi'an Articles

When you shift to a new country, a good attitude to the foreign culture and an open mind to new friends and places are necessary. But certainly you cannot ignore an important item on the list, which is Savings! Yes, the most primary effort is to fund your move or protect yourself from unexpected financial drain.

I was first drawn by curiosity but I soon found myself enraptured in the counter culture of gas guzzling, overheating, greased hands, skinned knuckles, and ringing ears of sweet sweet freedom in the form of three wheels on the open road. Passion is what moves us to do what we do when we feel compelled to act. Khalil Gibran wrotein

For a millennia, dumplings have been one of the staple dishes in Chinese cuisine, freshly prepared at home by most families and available in many restaurants. During the Tang dynasty, jiaozi became the celebratory dish to be eaten all over China at New Year’s Eve or right in the first minutes of the new year, largely due to the

Reading and listening to so many negative, one-sided, manipulative, smug and condescending voices on things China recently (and they were just my own!), I feel like simply writing a brief note reminding myself of why I like living in Xi’an. Article by Richard Frost 李志.
(www.notesfromxian.com)

Winter has finally passed, the birds are starting to sing, and I am no longer having to walk funny due to thermal underwear. As I stoll down Xianning Lu I cannot help but notice the massive hive of activity enamating from the north gate of Jiao Tong University and the south gate of Xing Qing Park. What could be causing such

The vertical parking lot, located in the northern suburb of Cross Street and Ming-Lu, is nearly 98 meters high. Hidden in the residential home, it is almost invisible from the outside appearance. The 52-storey residential building has stacked parking lots on both sides and can accommodate a total of 104 cars.

Xi’an is a place that can capture the imagination of the author, intrigue the historic scholar, and enchant the love struck poet and for those spending a few days in this cradle of Chinese civilization that maybe just what their after, but what about living here? Sometimes, for the long term guest the

We are about to celebrate the Yellow River Soup Kitchen’s 4th Birthday this week, quite an achievement in itself considering from the outset we were never given any hope of survival here in China past the first few months. To mark our work to date some friends in the UK and China have

The Yellow River Soup Kitchen was founded in December 2005 and is a non profit NGO, registered in the UK but operating in Xi’an and the surrounding district. It is astonishingly understood to be the first Soup Kitchen in China and is wholly run by volunteers for volunteers and as such has no overheads of any description.

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