Jeremy HildrethTag Archives: Hong Kong
My first encounter with Communist China: And I’d thought Wal-Mart in America was cheap!
Dispatch #2 from Kunming, China Tue 3/19/02 8:46 AM In this Chinese city of 3.3 million, there are few outward signs of communism. On the contrary, Kunming is a grimy, bustling semi-metropolis teeming with commerce. It has more in common with what I expected to find, and did find, in Hong Kong than with what [...]
Macau confidential: “Happy! Happy! Happy! Haw! Haw! Haw!”
Dispatch from Kunming, China Sun 3/17/02 6:25 AM Dear Friends, We’re now in Kunming, capital of the Yunann province of the People’s Republic of China. We’ll be here only long enough to arrange permission and transportation for the Burma road, then we’ll head out. In the meantime, we’re enjoying spending $12 USD per night for [...]
In Hong Kong, a shampoo Jean Valjean
From: jeremyhildreth To: triplist Date: Fri 3/15/02 3:35 AM Subject: Dispatch from Hong Kong Dear friends, As I travel the world for the next three months, I’ve promised to keep in touch with all of you as much as possible. Please feel free but not obligated to reply to these dispatches. I arrived [...]
Heat Treatment ’02: Revisiting the travel writing that started it all
In 2002, just before coming to England to do my MBA at Oxford, I burned up three and a half months by taking the most extraordinary journey I may ever take. And writing about it.
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