Comprehensive in scope yet briefer in duration than many China tours, this relaxed, well-paced journey combines monumental Beijing, a cruise on the cosmopolitan Shanghai. Traveling in your prized small group, you'll have the good fortune to meet local people and to experience a host of China's highlights, both ancient and of the moment.
- Beijing touring, including Tiananmen Square, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, and the Great Wall
- Beijing hutong tour and home visit
- Traditional Peking Duck dinner
- Xian's Terra Cotta Warriors
- Three-night Yangtze River cruise including Three Gorges and Smaller Gorges
- Cruise aboard premier ship of Victoria Cruises
- Included shore excursions
- Visit to the site of the new Three Gorges Dam
- Shanghai sightseeing: acclaimed Shanghai Museum, the Bund, Children's Palace, Yu Yuan Gardens
Hong Zhang, associate professor of East Asian studies at Colby, will accompany the trip. Zhang received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and did her postdoctoral research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, Harvard University. At Colby she teaches both Chinese language and Chinese culture courses. Her research interests include family and marriage, intergenerational relations, population aging, gender, urbanization, rural-urban migration, social reforms, and contemporary Chinese society. In the past ten years, she has been doing research in a village in central China documenting changes in marriage patterns and family dynamics. In more recent years she has begun to study migrant labor and the urbanization process in the Pearl River Delta, where many rural young people from the interior provinces—including the village she has studied—come to seek wage labor and urban life.
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