China 2006 - Yuanmingyuan, Tsinghua&Body Count

Several good presentations in the morning.

Lost&mosquito-bitten in the Yuanmingyuan (old Summer Palace ruins) in the late afternoon; I'm the only Westerner there. Some stray dogs are following me at a distance, while I am looking for loose stones to scare them away.





Dinner at a Tsinghua/Qinghua restaurant after a late evening walk through the on-campus residential area. Body count; around 500 animals on the table, including one duck and one donkey, 350 get eaten whole. The order is taken on a WLAN-enabled Handspring. Cheers waft over from the next room... as the other tables are discussing quantum physics, they probably cheer for some successful cold fusion at their table. Some of the food stays where it belongs because it's bogged down by some working class grade booze of 56 vol%.