Aug
25
2024
南京江北新区图书馆 石佛大街与万寿路交叉口
A new library in the North of River newly developed area in Nanjing: people are waiting for the opening at 9am every day, and rush in to grab a seat or two!
… 一哄而上 crowd up (?) describes acting rashly and simultaneously without organization and preparation. 一哄而上的抢独立空间座位 a rush to grab independent seats. … in a library!
曾祖周馥 Great Grandfather Zhou Fu
偌大的江北图书馆,所有合适的地方都设置了座位,读者每天逾3千人,暑假更多。能够在这样设施舒适现代、书香气息浓郁的场馆里,拥有一方独立的空间,一坐一天,尽情的享受研学的快乐,是很惬意的。每天上午九点开馆,一哄而上的抢独立空间座位的事,是领略过的。
每次来图书馆,图1~4所示的固定场所,总能看到这个阳光帅气、读初二的少年。好奇的问他怎么保证有这个固定的位置?回答是,整个暑假里,他父亲每天帮他抢座位,中午送来饮食,下午六点闭馆才接他离开。
好刻苦认真的孩子,好一个望子成龙的父亲,真心祝福!
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Apr
12
2018
Fuzimiao
Nanjing
A few minutes walk from Nanjing Dapaidang. Opposite from the museum. It’s rather small but the little sitting area at the rare is nice, looking out to the golden dragons on the wall. If you’re in a rush,visit the museum. This one cost
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Apr
10
2018
Nanjing
南京一日游
贡院和博物馆都挺好的.
The combo ticket for both is 50; separately, left hand site is 25 and the museum is 40.
After reading Elman
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Apr
10
2018
What a day!
A glorious sunny Tuesday. An hour ride from Shanghai is super cool. But the nightmare begins the moment I showed my passport at the train station window, getting my tickets: wrong name – my cousin purchased it under my Chinese name.
Ending the day by going to the wrong train station. The rule of thumb is, sleeping trains are from the old staton. Oh well. The cab driver demanded
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Apr
9
2018
292 Changjiang Rd
Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, 210002
After the Imperial Exam, I hop on the subway and get off at Daxinggong Station 大行宫 on Taiping N Road, to visit the Palace. As I’m walking toward the Changjiang Road half a block ahead, I ask a woman if she knows where the Presidential Palace is. “Follow me,” she says.
We cross Changjiang Road and turn to the right, the ticket office is a short walk ahead. After fighting to get my ticket which they require ID – hey people, I’m only visiting, not running for election!! But wain, I was born in China, that makes me … eligible to run for an office? (in 2020? ha ha.) I turn around to see the woman, who, unfortunately doesn’t have her ID with her, neither her children – too many heads for me to carry … but as I wait in line to get in, three teens come up to me, “Auntie, can you bring us in?” Kids under 18 go free. I got them in without any drama.
My main reason to come is due to my maternal great great grandfather Zhou Fu who oversaw the re-construction of the city after Taiping Rebellion put down in 1864. Little did he expect that decades later he would occupied the same compound he rebuilt as the Viceroy of Lianjiang in 1904-6 – not having the coveted jinshi degree was a good guess. This old photo from Andrew Hillier collection shown his predecessor Wei Guangdao was giving a lunch party in honor of Guangxu Emperor’s birthday on Aug 18, 1903. (Both Wei and Zhou’s next appointment was Viceroy of Min-Zhe. Before taking up his, Zhou was reappointed to Guangzhou (Canton) as the Viceroy of LiangGuang where he’d sign the Gold Loan of 1907 which was the reason that led me to Dr. Andrew Hillier, and discovered this photo.)
Not doing enough homework, as usual: IF I were to see this old picture before the trip, I’d taken one or two with the same angle. This one will do for now (another one). The larger marble boat is in the West Garden.
Zhou Fu’s son Xuexi was born in Nanjing in 1866 and went on to become the father of Chinese industry. He tangled up in the messy Kaiping mines with Herbert C. Hoover that yielded the trial of the century in London in 1905. Later he served two terms of Minister of Finance, under Yuan Shikai.
Between the East and West gardens/lakes is Xu Garden 煦园 where one of my uncles (Zhou Fu’s great grandson) was born and hence named – Zhou Xuliang graduated from the University of Edinburgh, became a famed English literature and philosophy transactor. The 1932 Nobel winner The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy was among his many works. The book 福尔赛世家 is
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