LET CHINA SLEEP,
FOR WHEN SHE WAKES,
SHE WILL
SHAKE THE WORLD.
- NAPOLEON
UNCW+NANJING
WHERE?
Antique yet up-to-the-minute, familiar yet unrecognizable,
outwardly urban but quintessentially rural, conservative yet
path-breaking, space-age but old-fashioned,
China is a land of mesmerizing and eyeopening contradictions.
- Lonely Planet
NANJING + CHINA
Home Base: Nanjing, one of China’s four ancient capitals.
Nánjīng, Jiāngsū’s capital, lies in the southwest
on the lower stretches of the Yangzi River. It’s
one of China’s more pleasant and prosperous
cities, with wide leafy boulevards, chic
apartment blocks and mile-high office towers,
set among a beautiful landscape of lakes,
forested parks and rivers.
- Lonely Planet
LEARN CHINESE,
LIVE CHINESE
Nánjīng is a cosmopolitan mix of old and new,
where crumbling ruins stand side by side with shopping
mega-plazas. Home to several excellent universities and a
large foreign student population, the city boasts many
international restaurants and a lively nightlife.
- Lonely Planet
The third-largest
country and the
world's largest
population, Chinese
culture is rich,
diverse, endlessly
surprising, and
will hit you
like a ton of
bricks.
- Fodors
A journey of a
thousand miles
begins with
a single
step.
- Chinese proverb
“I heard” is good; “I saw” is better.
- Chinese proverb.
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede
on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world
vaulting us, and it's good-bye.
But we lean forward to
THE NEXT CRAZY VENTURE
beneath the skies .”
- Jack Kerouac
To move, to breathe, to
fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the
roads of lands
remote,
To
travel
is to
live.
- Hans Christian Anderson