Sunday, April 13, 2008

mu'ouxi


A dying art form, the Chinese Puppet Show is known as mu'ouxi (play of wooden dolls). I was able to appreciate the simple joy in puppetry in China last year.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Tea Making



Anxi County, in Fujian Province, China, is a county level city in the Quanzhou prefecture-level city. It is well-known for its ancient and famous Oolong tea, the Tieguanyin, which means Iron Goddess of Mercy in English. Anxi county supplies the entire nation's worth of Tieguanyin tea to the other parts of China and to the rest the world.

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