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President's Report
What a wonderful event to end 2015! We had 85 members
and friends attending our Christmas party lunch at The Eight
Restaurant, including our special guests our beloved Patron
Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir, Chinese
Consul General Mr Li Huaxin and three of his Consuls, and Ms
Amy Rae representing Mr Jian Sun of China Travel Service.
The food was delicious, goodwill abounded, and everyone
loved the beautiful speeches given by Dame Marie and HE
Mr Li Huaxin.
Thank you to all who donated items for our fun raffle/auction
- especially to Mr Li Huaxin for the beautiful books on China,
The Metropolitan Orchestra for the tickets to their first
concert in 2016, and to David and Mary Kelly for their
legendary Christmas ham. Thanks to the hardworking
Committee members and auctioneer Contessa Hajinikitas
and thanks to all present for making it such a success. The
event raised over $1400, our best ever, and will really help
the Society.
I hope all members enjoyed the past festive season and will
enjoy the Chinese New Year celebrations still to come.
Wishing you all a happy, peaceful and healthy 2016.
Margaret Yung Kelly, President, January 2016
Christmas lunch with special guests Dame Marie Bashir,
Patron of ACFS, and HE Mr Li Huaxin, Consul General of the
PRC in Sydney.
Donations
Many thanks to the following for their kind donations:
Dr Tony Goh & Leng Tan, Verne Caradus, Thomas Kwok, A
Lee, D J Moroney & Mrs M Moroney, NB & WR Capper, John
Jackson, William Lee, A S Adcock, Julie Wong, Y Skinner,
Robyn A Evershed, Kenneth Brock, Marilyn Hillery.
Vale
Vale to Arthur Locke Chang, who will always be remembered
and celebrated as a founding member of Australia-China
Friendship Society NSW. Our sincere condolences to Anne
and the Chang family.
Vale
VALE to Paul Ward, who passed away on 29th December
2015. Paul was a senior lecturer in criminology at Sydney
University Law School for 25 years before he retired. He will
be remembered for his passion for cryptic crosswords,
puzzles, sudoku, classical music and opera. Paul and his wife
Yvonne Khoo, very active longstanding members of ACFS,
participated in many of our overseas tours. We offer our
sincere condolences to Yvonne and family.
March Meeting – Book Launch by Dr Richard Wu
You are invited to the launch of ‘Falling and Flying: Poems on
Ageing’, edited by Judith Beveridge and Dr Susan Ogle,
illustrated by Dr Richard Wu, on Monday, 21/3/16, at 6 pm.
The special guest speaker is Professor The Hon. Dame Marie
Bashir AD, CVO. Richard will be also give a brief PowerPoint
presentation and display samples of the paintings. Please
RSVP to Margaret Kelly, on 9810 4298, by 2nd of February.
WHEN: Monday 21 March, 6pm
WHERE: Kolling Auditorium, Level 5, Kolling Bldng, Royal
North Shore Hospital
ALL proceeds from sales at the launch will go directly to the
Penney Ageing Research Unit at the Royal North Shore
Hospital.
Falling and Flying:
Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing - is the
first collection of its kind to be published in
Australia. The editors have selected a
broad range of Australian poems which
explore the universal experience and
effects of ageing. Whether the poets are
witnessing themselves or their parents and
friends succumb to the years, they speak
with great precision and insight into illness, frailty, death,
loss, grief and retirement as well as the joys and the wisdom
that late maturity can bring. There is humour as well as
sadness in this fine and important collection, which includes
the work of some of Australia's best loved poets, a volume to
be cherished by readers of any age.
Dr Susan Ogle is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
and geriatrician at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and
has recently completed a Masters of Medical
Humanities. Susan has been interested in medical education
for many years, using literature (stories and poetry), patient
and family narratives and role play. She is co-editor
of Reflection, the humanities section of the Australasian
Journal on Ageing. Her poetry has been published in literary
and medical journals.
Judith Beveridge is the author of six volumes of poetry, most
recently Devadatta's Poems and Hook and Eye. She is the
poetry editor of Meanjin and teaches poetry writing at
postgraduate level at the University of Sydney. She has won
many prizes for her poetry including the Philip Hodgins
Memorial Medal and the Christopher Brennan Award. Her
work has been studied in schools and universities and has
been translated into several languages.
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Dates for your Diary:
ACFS Regular Activities
Qigong: Every Wednesday, 10am, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney, exercise class $15. Call Miranda
Ho on 0402 918 383
Mandarin: Every Tuesday. General Language class 10.30am-12noon in our ACFS Rooms, $17. Contact Mark Seeto, ph. 0417
691 988 or email: [email protected]
ART -ANCIENT AND MODERN
Xmas is always a busy time but those members who didn't
get along to our last two, end of year invitations to free
events, missed two related but quite dissimilar artistic and
cultural treats.
These events also both related wonderfully to Dr Richard
Wu's end of year talk (which I missed, but heard about) on
understanding ancient Chinese social models when
deciphering oracle bone and bronze writings.
These two little gems were a roundtable presentation by,
and discussion with, visiting Professor Shui Tao at Sydney
University on the excavation of bronze-age sites in the Altay
Mountains and the sublime exhibition of Chinese Buddhist
painting in cinnabar and ink by Zou Pingchao at the China
Cultural Centre in Castlereagh Street.
Kaye and I first "sat in" at the packed seminar room at the
Old Teacher's College on 2 December to hear about that spot
on the planet where East Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia
meet Xinjiang, China to hear about, and see photos of,
archaeological discoveries in stone hewn grave sites from a
variety of periods containing all manner of memorial objects,
some, of great beauty and artistic originality.
Just two days later, we visited the China Cultural Centre to
admire an exhibition of modern brush painted illustrations of
the lives of arhats (those Buddhist saints sufficiently
advanced to qualify for “extinction” who purposely chose to
remain as they were to assist others achieve enlightenment).
Each famous example hung individually on the walls, but
each of these were then jointly depicted in a very long scroll
on a long trestle table (maybe 20 m long, or more), the
figures linked in a single chain, collectively.
By both displays (viewed by walking around the hall, or
sidling along the table on which the single scroll lay, the artist
had succeeded in seemingly effortlessly displaying
“peacefulness” and the personal behaviour necessary for the
achievement of lasting social harmony.
Art that can move any of us to desire social not just, (or as
well as) personal improvement is great indeed. If you missed
either of these quite separate but moving ‘illustrations’ make
a note to watch for their repetition on a future occasion.
賓彼得
Pete Bannister, December 2015 PS: For the Bronze Age excavation site area, the University of
Oregon has an excellent array of pictographs, burial
arrangements and revealed artefacts at
www.mongolianaltai.uoregon.edu . Many of the images are
reminiscent of – Anazazi sites in New Mexico and Arizona.
THE YEAR FOR THE MONKEY
2016 is year of the Red Monkey.
.
The Chinese name of 2016 in the Chinese Horoscope
calendar is
. Chinese apply Five Elements (Metal,
Water, Wood, Fire and Earth) into the Chinese
calendar.
is in the Fire group. The color of Fire is
connected to Red.
is the calendar character
corresponding to Monkey. Therefore, 2016 is the Red Fire
Monkey year.
2016 is the 4713th Chinese Year. According to Chinese
Horoscope calendar, the first day of Red Monkey is on
February 4, 2016. This day is not the Chinese New Year Day.
Most of Internet Chinese horoscope sites use Chinese New
Year Day to determine the Chinese zodiac sign, which is
wrong. Chinese New Year Day of Red Monkey Year is on
February 8, 2016. This is the reason that some people
confuse their Chinese zodiac signs.
The first day of the Chinese astrological year is the first day of
the Tiger Month (Start of Spring). The Tiger Month begins
around February 4, each year. If you were born before
February 4, then you should check Your Chinese Zodiac
Sign first before reading your 2016 Chinese zodiac forecast.
Monkey is the 9th animal in 12 zodiac signs. Monkey is after
8th Sheep and before 10th Chicken. Monkey is the animal in
the first of Metal Cycle. Monkey, Chicken and Dog are in the
cycle of Metal. Our Chinese horoscope prediction combines
the theory of Five Elements, the relationships between
animal signs and the image meaning of I-Ching hexagram.
The prediction for 2016 Year of Monkey is based on your
birth year, the Chinese zodiac signs. We have different
forecasting method for 2016 using your entire Chinese
astrology birth chart, which is required your birthday and
birth time. You can find the hyperlink in the end of the
prediction.
According to Chinese Five Elements Horoscopes, Monkey
contains Metal and Water. Metal is connected to gold. Water
is connected to wisdom and danger. Therefore, we will deal
with more financial events in the year of the Monkey.
Monkey is a smart, naughty, wily and vigilant animal. If you
want to have good return for your money investment, then
you need to outsmart the Monkey. Metal is also connected
to the Wind. That implies the status of events will be
changing very quickly. Think twice before
you leap when making changes for your
finance, career, business relationship and
people relationship.
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Chinese Garden Chamber Music 2016
Five highly renowned master instrumentalists from
China performing in collaboration with top Australian
musicians in the unique setting of The Chinese Garden of
Friendship
JOIN US......to hear some of the finest musicians in
China for a breathtaking evening in the beautiful
surroundings of the Chinese Garden. A truly cross
cultural program including contemporary Chinese
works with arrangements by John Huie, also
featuring Australian chamber music artists Jane
Rutter and Rowena MacNeish.
Utilizing the entire garden as the performance
area, this wide, open air stage is transformed into
an acoustically and visually stunning concert
experience.
TICKET: $65 (Additional fees may apply)
General Admission (seating will be allocated on
the evening of each concert)
HOSTED BY: China Cultural Centre (Sydney)
SUPPORTED BY: Sydney Harbour Foreshore
Authority
MUSICIANS
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Wang Tao - pipa
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Gu Xiaoyan - gu zheng
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Chen Hongyu - zhong ruan
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Lv Tingting - erhu
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Zhu Wei - dizi
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Jane Rutter - flute
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Rowena Macneish - cello
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Hugh Frazer - double bass
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John Huie - Artistic Director
PRODUCED BY: Chinese Chamber Music Company
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CATERING PARTNER: Golden Century Seafood
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14th February 2016
7.30pm – 9.30pm
TICKETING ENQUIRIES:
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Buying Clothes in Shanghai
A short story by Snow Dodgson
I arrive at Tiantong Lu station via line number 10, and am immediately swamped by the crowd of people going to
Qipu Lu. No matter whether one is in the buildings or on the streets, Qipu Lu is always full of people, full of shops.
I am leaving the station through exit number 2 which gives direct access to the main Qipu Lu shopping hub and
overwhelmed with stylish bags, shoes, pants, dress, suits… everything marked at half the price one would normally
see. I am also overwhelmed with the yells and chatter of people bargaining.
I see a pair of tall black boots that I fancy. I walk into the shop and I am immediately welcomed with "hello meinu!,
this is Shanghai street talk meaning young female person, it doesn’t really mean "beautiful young woman" which is
the correct Mandarin translation). These boots would look great on you. “The shopkeeper shows me to a seat then
bends down to help me fit the shoes. I feel like a queen. I really like these boots, so I ask “how much?”
With a smiling face he says “180 yuan. “
“ppfffttt! Are you stealing from me?
“ohhh meinu! I gave you a special price! This is the last pair and they looks so good on you! 180 is the price that I buy
them for..! And…”
“100”
“oh meinu! How can I do business!”
I start to walk out of the shop.
“hey hey! 120!! 120 and no lower!”
I didn't look back “90!” I could hear above the din of the shopping street as I walked away shaking my head. “no no
no”
I walked into other shops to look around. It is winter here and the fashion style on the streets of Shanghai Is high
boots, stockings and thick skirts.
About half of an hour went by. I am about to walk into another shop and I hear hurried footsteps from around the
corner. The shopkeeper with the tall black boots has come running to find me.
“Meinu, Meinu… 90yuan”
“80”
“OK..”
“come back and get them.”
I love those boots. I have worn them every day since I bought them
Qipu Lu is a fun place to shop, it is known throughout China for being the best place in Shanghai to bargain.
Bargaining at Qipu Lu is a game. I buy what I fancy for a cheap price. The word Qipu Lu is not a Chinese word, it is a
local approximation of the English word "cheaper". (Lu means street.) Before China’s entry into the WTO Qipu Lu
was famous for selling counterfeit fashion items. Now Qipu lu is a collection of competitive local fashion businesses
and is a magnet for cash-strapped young people in Shanghai, the fashion capital of China.
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ACFS 2015 Xmas Party
Dame Marie Bashir speaking at our Xmas party
about her love of China and the Chinese people.
Dame Marie spoke of her first visit to China,
working with barefoot doctors in poor rural areas
Dame Marie Bashir with ACFS President Margaret
Kelly
Rare book donation by HE The Consul General, Li Huaxin
HE Li Huaxin, Consul General of the Peoples Republic
of China, with ACFS member Gina Kelly
Murray Block, winner of the much-coveted ham!
China's historic quest for a peaceful rise
Jean-Pierre Lehmann
China is the first new great global power to emerge in over a century.
It is receiving a great deal of unsolicited advice in the process, notably, then US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick's
2005 admonition to Beijing that it should be a "responsible stakeholder". (Note: that was two years after the invasion of Iraq!)
It was logical, therefore, that the Chinese should ask how the preceding emerging great powers got there. One result of the
inquiries was a brilliant 2006 CCTV series, The Rise of the Great Powers.
The series begins with Portugal in the 15th century, the first great global seaborne power with an empire stretching from
Brazil, across the Atlantic, to both West and East Africa, through to the Indian Ocean with an outpost in Goa and, thence, to
the Western Pacific in Macau. Following Portugal, the series describes the rise of the next eight great powers: Spain, the
Netherlands, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and the United States.
One major conclusion is that not a single one of the nine could have been described as a responsible stakeholder in their rise
to global power: In every case, conquest, destruction, enslavement, executions, looting and the like were the order of the day.
The rise of Mr Zoellick's own country, the US, entailed slavery, the genocide of native American Indians, wars and territorial
acquisitions (notably from Mexico), the control of neighbouring countries in the Caribbean through the expulsion of other
powers, the imposition of the Monroe Doctrine declaring Latin America a US sphere of influence, culminating in the SpanishAmerican war whereby Washington acquired Puerto Rico (plus Guam and the Philippines) and Spain was expelled from Cuba.
In his compelling book, Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea And The End Of A Stable Pacific, Robert Kaplan draws an
intriguing parallel between US perspectives on the Caribbean in relation to its national security, and China's on the South
China Sea.
Arguably, the most relevant chapter of the CCTV series is that on Britain. It was Britain that woke China from its slumber and
forced it, screaming and kicking, into the modern age. Imperial China, which, just before the outbreak of the first Opium War,
corresponded to over 30 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP), was almost certainly unsustainable.
The system was obsolete and violent peasant risings had been raging for decades. But it is the manner in which Britain
behaved that remains for China and Britain - and for the rest of the planet - a deep moral quandary. As the totally illicit opium
trade caused economic and social ravages, the Chinese pleaded with Britain to be a responsible stakeholder.
In an impassioned letter to Queen Victoria just prior to the outbreak of hostilities, commissioner Lin Zexu appealed to her
better moral self to intervene so the heinous trade could end. Lin pointed to the flagrant double standards (a recurrent theme
among risen Western great powers) in noting: "I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your
country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not permitted to do harm to your own
country, then even less should you let it be passed on to the harm of other countries - how much less to China!"
Queen Victoria never replied to the letter, except in the form of gunships in the first Opium War, followed by a second
offensive from 1856 to 1860, in which the French joined the British, culminating with the looting of the Old Summer Palace in
Beijing - somewhat comparable to the Chinese looting the British Museum and the Louvre.
If the Portuguese seaborne empire is the first chapter in the rise of the great powers, the Opium War is the first chapter in
China's century of humiliation. By the year of liberation (1949), its share of GDP had plummeted to 4 per cent, while in the
process there were incessant foreign military invasions, as well as the moral injury of the treaty ports, the coolie trade and
other forms of humiliation.
Though China, unlike India, was not colonised by a single imperial power, in the words of Sun Yat Sen, it was a "poly-colony"
with multiple countries helping themselves to bits and pieces of Chinese territory in what were called "spheres of influence".
In looking back over the past 500 years, it is clear that the narrative of the peaceful rise of a great power has never been
written. Every single rising power from Portugal to the US has been bellicose, brutal and at times barbaric. It was after they
had caused disorder that they sought to impose order - their order. If China wants a model of a responsible stakeholder, the
fact is that it does not exist.
The term "China's peaceful rise to great power status" was coined by Chinese thought leader Zheng Bijian in 2005. The future
of humanity very much depends on whether, as it rises to become a great global power, China will behave with the same
ruthless cynicism and cause as much misery and mayhem as its nine predecessors, or whether it will break the pattern and
tear asunder the great-power-rising paradigm by rising peacefully.
It's a tough challenge, especially, I repeat, as there is no precedent, no guidebook one can take off the shelf, no historical
mentor one can turn to.
Whether China ultimately succeeds or fails will, of course, greatly depend on China, but it will also depend on the attitudes
and acts of the existing and erstwhile great powers. Western sermons are not helpful. To construct a better and more peaceful
world, a collective constructive approach is quintessential. As is a degree of humility on the part of the Western powers (and
Japan). They should recognise that they did not rise peacefully and, indeed, as they rose, China was abused. This might go
some way in avoiding a Chinese syndrome of revenge.
A first concrete step in that direction might be for Queen Elizabeth, before she leaves the throne, to apologise to China on
behalf of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, for her rudeness in never having properly replied to Lin Zexu's letter. A
small act of this nature could have a huge impact.
- The writer is emeritus professor of international political economy at IMD, Switzerland and visiting professor at the University
of Hong Kong. This article first appeared in the South China Morning Post.
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Australia China Friendship Society
澳 中 友 好 協 会
NSW INC.
Invites you to join our ACFS- Spirit of the Long March to experience the historical route of military retreat from SouthNorth into West undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China; the 14 nights/15days tour takes from
Guangzhou then to Jinggangshan-Jiujiang-Lushan-Nanchang-Changsha Shaoshan-Ningxiang-Yueyang-Xi’anYan’an, Guangzhou.
We have been able to obtain for members and friends this specially priced tour, organised by
CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE (AUST.) PTY. LTD. (Licence No. 2TA001849)
The tour will depart from Sydney on 12 October 2016 and arrive back in Sydney on 26 October 2016. Please
complete the attached booking form and return to Ms Amy Rae, China Travel Service (Aust) Pty. Ltd Sydney
Office, Level 1, Suite 3 -7, 650 George Street, Sydney 2000 as soon as possible to secure your place on
this fabulous tour.
Please make cheque deposit of $350.00 payable to CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE
The balance of the tour costs is payable by 20 August 2016 and a meeting of tour members will be held about two
weeks prior to departure. Travel Insurance is essential. CTS (Amy Rae Tel: 02 9372 0081) can arrange it at special
minimal cost or you can make your own arrangement.
Book as soon as possible
DON’T MISS OUT!!
Tour Leader is ACFS committee member Ms Miranda Ho (Budiman)
Tel: 0402 918 383
Email: [email protected]
Tour Inclusions:
Tour Exclusions:
*Twin share room at 4 star hotels
*Fully inclusive tour with breakfast, lunches and & dinners
*Transfers, tours including admission fees
*All airfares with airport taxes and fuel surcharges
*Chinese Visa Fee
* Fully escorted tour by local English speaking guides
*Tipping
*Travel bag
*Travel Insurance
*Personal expenses
Tour Cost: $4750 per person on twin share basis
Land only cost: $4450pp (From/Ends: Guangzhou)
Single Room Supplement: $850
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Spirit of the Long March Tour
15 Days
Guangzhou-Jinggangshan-Jiujiang-Lushan-Nanchang-Changsha
Shaoshan-Ningxiang-Yueyang-Xi’an-Yan’an
12 October, Day1 Sydney-Guangzhou
Take an overnight flight from Sydney to Guangzhou on China Southern Airlines CZ302 at 2215 to Guangzhou.
13 October, Day2 Guangzhou-Jinggangshan (L/D)
Upon arrive in Guangzhou at 0500, you will need to clear the airport formalities and connect to CZ3945 at 0845 to
Jinggangshan, Jingganshan is a country level city in Jiangxi province known as the birthplace of the People’s
Liberation Army, and the "cradle of the Chinese revolution". After lunch, transfer to hotel for some rest then visit
the Revolution Museum in the afternoon.
Hotel: Jinyuan Hotel or similar
14 October, Day3 Jinggangshan (B/L/D)
This morning, we will visit the Huangyangjie Post,
Baizhuyuan Garden, and the relic of Mint, Red Army
Hospital, and Rainbow Falls. You can also take a
view of Wuzhi Mountain from there. Afterwards,
transfer to your hotel.
Hotel: Jinyuan Hotel or similar
15 October, Day4 Jinggangshan-Jiujiang (B/L/D)
Today, we will continue our visit in Jinggangshan,
the Beishan Martyrs Cemetery and Ciping Red Army
Camp- Mao Zedong's former residence. After our
visit to the Yicuihu Garden, we will take a train ride
to Jiujiang.
Hotel: Shanshui Hotel or similar
16 October, Day5 Jiujiang-Lushan (B/L/D)
This morning, we will take the coach to Lushan (approx. 3 hours). We will visit the popular attractions in Mount Lu
such as the Huajing Garden, Jingxiu Valley, the Immortal Caverns, Meilu Outhouse and so forth.
Hotel: Lushan Hotel or similar
17 October, Day6 Lushan-Nanchang (B/L/D)
In the morning, visit Sanbaoshu scenic area and
Lushan Museum. Then coach to Nanchang (approx.
2 hours).
Hotel: Qixing Business Hotel or similar
18 October, Day7 Nanchang-Changsha (B/L/D)
In the morning, visit the Site-Memorial of the
August 1 Nanchang Uprising and Jiangxi Province
Museum. Then take high-speed train to Changsha.
Hotel: Xinwei Huatian Hotel or similar
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19 October, Day8 Changsha-Shaoshan - Ningxiang-Changsha
In the morning, coach to Shaoshan, which is the hometown of
Chairman Mao. Visit Chairman Mao’s Former Residence, Bronze
statue of Mao Zedong, the Library and Mao Zedong Memorial
Museum. Move on to Ningxiang. Visit Liu Shaoqi Former
Residence Huangminglou. Afterwards, return to Changsha
by.coach.
Hotel: Xinwei Huatian Hotel
20 October, Day9 Changsha- Yueyang-Changsha (B/L/D)
This morning, coach to Yueyang. Visit the Dongting Lake and
Yueyang Pagoda. Move on to Liuyang and visit the Former
Residence of Hu Yaobang. If time permits, explore the
Huangxinglu Walk Street on your leisure.
Hotel: Xinwei Huatian Hotel
21 October, Day10 Changsha (B/L/D)
This morning, coach to Yuelu Mountain. Visit Yuelu Academy, Juzizhoutou, Statue of Youth Mao Zedong, Pozi
Street and Snack Street where you can try some Hunan cuisine
Hotel: Xinwei Huatian Hotel or similar
22 October, Day11 Changsha-Xi’an-Yan’an (B/L/D)
In the morning, take an early flight CZ3721 at 0810 to Xi’an. Xi’an is considered as a Shrine of Chinese Revolution. It
became the center of the Chinese Communist revolution from 1936 to 1948. We will visit the Xuanyuan Temple
then continue our journey to Yan’an, where the Chinese communists celebrated as the birthplace of the
revolution.
Hotel: Yan’an Yinhai Hotel or similar
23 October, Day12 Yan’an-Xi’an (BLD)
Visit Yan’an Revolution Museum, Zaoyuan Revolution
Relics, and Yangjialing Revolution Relics. Move on to
Nanniwan. The Eighth Route of Red Army carried out
the famous Production Campaign. Then coach back to
Xi’an. Enjoy a Tang Dynasty Show after dinner.
Hotel: Grand New World Hotel or similar
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24 October, Day13 Xi’an- Guangzhou (B/L/D)
Today’s tour highlight is to visit the greatest
archaeological discovery of the last century, where
the Terracotta Warriors were interred with the
Emperor Qin Shi Huang more than 2000 years ago. Included are the Circle Vision Movie and Bronze Chariot. Later,
visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum; follow by the Xi’an Art Ceramic and Lacquer Ware Factory then
transfer to airport for flight CZ3212 at 1735 to Guangzhou.
Hotel: Landmark Hotel or similar
（ ）
25 October, Day14 Guangzhou-Sydney B/L
In the morning, visit Zhongshan Memorial Hall, Xiguan (Westside Mansion of Guangzhou) where you can find the
big old houses which belonged to rich businessmen of Guangzhou in the past. Continue our visit to Zhujiang New
City. After enjoy a nice Yumcha lunch, you will have some free time for last minute shopping before being
transferred to the Guangzhou airport for your flight CZ325 at 2105 to Sydney.
Overnight flight 26 October, Day15 Sydney. Morning arrive in Sydney at 09:05am.
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