Travel Blogging XII

Dateline: The South China Sea. We are enroute to Hong Kong, on a somewhat rocky sea. The Purser’s desk is giving away a lot of meclizine hydrochloride tablets. They go by the trade name Bonine, are nonprescription, and really do work. The DrsC take them whenever we are on the ocean.

A further thought about Shanghai, and Hong Kong too. New architecture in China has few or none of the architectural details we westerners associate with Chinese architecture. We asked our guide Alan, who BTW is trained as an architect, about this and his response was very interesting. Alan says people in today’s China do not want to see those classical Chinese elements on new buildings. They prefer architecture in the modern-to-post-modern range. The other DrC suggests this shows that the Red Guard/Cultural Revolution purge of the “four olds” was more successful than you might think. That is an intriguing idea.