Liuzhou Laowai

Not directly Liuzhou related, but I would be failing in my duty if I didn’t bring these to your attention. A set of photographs, processed to resemble traditional Chinese paintings. Some beautiful images. More here.

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The ever entertaining and informative website, “How to be a Retronaut” has alerted me to a collection of pictures from New York Public Library which they mistakenly believe to be a series of illustrations from around 1804 showing old Chinese punishment methods. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact they are illustrative of [...]

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For reasons which are somewhat unclear, Liuzhou is hosting an exhibition of four bronze animal heads which were allegedly among 12 bronze beast heads  plundered by French and British forces when they razed Beijing's Old Summer Palace or Yuanmingyuan in 1860 during the Second Opium War. So far, five of the 12 bronze animal heads (cow, [...]

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Anyone in Liuzhou over the next few days, and with half an hour or so to kill, could do a lot worse than pop into Liuzhou Museum where they are displaying a selection of 150 photographs, mainly of schoolchildren of the Miao minority who live in their mountain villages in nearby Rongshui County of Liuzhou. [...]

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The pedestrian shopping street in the city centre, 解放南路 jiě fàng nán lù (South Liberation Road) gets pretty busy in the evenings and at weekends – especially during holidays. There isn’t really much to do other than people watching and eating greasy snack foods. There aren’t even many shops. But as I said, it can [...]

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Holidays are here and lots of time to fill. One suggestion. Liuzhou Museum.   The notice at the gate says the museum moved to its present address in the North-East corner of Liuzhou Peoples' Square in July 2003. Not true. The old museum closed then, but it took another four years to build the new [...]

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I commented before on the epic lack of taste of the local planners and, in particular, this nonsense where they seemed to have gathered together a team of drunken imbeciles to design a few tubes covered in sticky back plastic. The sort of thing I did in primary school – or would have done if [...]

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To celebrate China’s National Day yesterday, the locals finally unveiled their latest waste of money bright idea after previewing it last month. And here it is. The statue is, of course, highly symbolic. First it is meant to be a star. Because it is in the “Five Star” part of town. Duh! Half the star [...]

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One of Liuzhou's more interesting characters is the one I call "Water Writing Man". He can often be seen around town. WW Man carries a contraption fed from a water tank on his back which he uses to write his Chinese calligraphy directly onto the pavement. Of course, it soon evaporates. Of course, you are [...]

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A few weeks ago, the locals erected this obelisk in the least visited part of Liuzhou’s pedestrian street. It depicts various scenes from what is meant to be the city’s history. Included is Liuzhou’s most significant historical character, writer and statesman, Liu Zongyuan. As part of the Chinese New Year celebrations a bunch of the [...]

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