Comments on: Dalian Is A Beautiful City

By: simon

simon — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:35:16 +0000

Not only is dalian an open stinking trash dumpster, but it is poised to become number one leukemia & lymphoma metropolis of the whole wide world, thanks to bastard CCP leaders/ mayor/ administrators of the city. “Developed” has a new meaning now in GDP-worshipping China – it means everyone gets cancer.

A massive para-xylene production facility secretly put into operation, within just a few miles from the downtown with a resident population in the millions. I see Bhopal all over again, only this time it will be hundred times more devastating, hundred years more long lasting.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120755755/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:24:23 +0000

@Alex: Weird (re: blog search). Re: Subway — makes sense. Fuck up the air and then move underground.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:15:56 +0000

Google blog search seems to be regurgitating a lot of your older posts, and I just came across this one.

Three years on Dalian’s not as clean and beautiful as it once was, it’s just got a PX chemical plant http://daliandalian.com/blog/dalian-px-chemical-plant, while measures of air particles in 2008 were only just a little less than Beijing, a city famous for not the best of air http://daliandalian.com/blog/slipping-on-grease-street-hoping-for-wind-to-blow-it-away

Bit of a shame really. But hey, we’re getting 9 subway lines!

By: John

John — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:00:30 +0000

I am very new to Dalian City. I am planning to visit in september for a week. Reading your review about dalian in this page, I believe you can be right person to help me regarding finding, booking hotel and sightseeking places. How would be the idea of finding hotel right after arriving the dalian City. Roughly how much does it cost for accomodation. I dont mind even cheapest hotel.

thanks!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:13:49 +0000

So, I read something about an English teacher being on every corner in Dalian, but I for one am having difficulties locating one. Do you have any links, ideas or suggestions that might be helpful? Thanks for anything resembling a promising lead:)

By: Bob Willes Chitty

Bob Willes Chitty — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:31:14 +0000

On some days (when the wind is in the right direction!) - Dalian can indeed be a beautiful city. I spent 5 months there in 2003 working as a Wedding Photographer - I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! I spent nearly all of my free time riding around the city on double-decker busses - top front right corner. Gotta be the first one on! The Zhong Shan Lu with its 'Dingle Ball' trees that arch over the roadway from one side to the other. The Botanical Gardens with its huge Lilac trees. Xinghua Park - with its 8-gigantic-speaker stereo system blasting out Western Classical music. The cliffs at Shicao. Bing Hai Road and Bangchui Island Beach - we spent many many hours there photographing wedding couples in the cool ocean breezes. Playing Frisbee in Zhong Shan Square (has no one in China ever seen one of these before??!!) - the round marble surface is perfect for 'skips' ad infinitum. The Olympic Square with its underground Wal-Mart. The Victory Square with its maze of Prairie-dog den-like stores. I lived at the Bohai Pearl Hotel right beside the brand new Japanese-designed train station - a wonderful 4 star hotel. Marble bathroom (heated mirror) - oak furniture throughout. Less than $20 USD per night (monthly rate). I miss Dalian. I have spent as much time in Beijing also and definitely prefer the semi-xenophobia of Dalian. I kept a daily journal while I was there - it's over 1 million characters - I had a lot to say about Dalian! I would move there again in a flash...thanks for the sentimental journey.

By: The Hao Hao Report

The Hao Hao Report — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:50:44 +0000

Dalian Is A Beautiful City…

Test test test… please ignore… well, actually, it’s a semi-interesting post, but this is still just a test….

By: Adventures of the Humanaught: Life In China Blog » Blog Archive » Pack It Up, Pack It In

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:35:37 +0000

[...] The move to Suzhou brings with it all sorts of perks outside of what the new job is offering me (more money, paid holidays, etc.). Namely, it is 50 minutes away from Shanghai, making any official crap I’ll have to deal with (read: getting married and getting visas) a bit easier. Suzhou is another city built on tourism, so I’m expecting lots of hype about that from the residents. I’m wondering what the offical line is in Suzhou? [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:13:05 +0000

@Dezza: Take your HK and stuff it! You should change your site to Mask of Almost-China … hehe. 开玩笑兄弟. Dalian introduced me to abalone… and man is it fantastic.

@Chris: There’s not a person on this planet that doesn’t have culture, so of course I didn’t mean it quite so literally. Whereas you seem to have embraced Chinese culture. I’ve noticed that I’ve very much gone the other way. The more I see and learn about how Chinese people are expected to act because of tradition and culture .. the more I realize that “developing” is exactly what China is always going to be. It’s not that their culture promotes the failures in this country, but it does protect them. I’m sure it’ll change though and one day Chinese culture will be as bland and commercial as the rest of ours.

To be honest, life would be easier (if not a bit less active on here) if I was in love with everything “China”. I’ve commited to always having a close tie to this country. It engendered my love, and will one day be a good portion of my childrens’ identity as well…

What I should put as a subtitle for this blog is “Saying things to counter-balance the conditioning.” I’m certainly not always right in my opinions, but I’ve got a long way to push to get to a middle ground when dealing with Chinese people every day… and though they are not the mainstay of my readership… mostly this blog is my soap box/confessional.

I think the big difference in my opinion (at least in this post) and what you said above is I lack pity and you seem to have more of it for Chinese people. I recognize how ego-centric it is for me to say I have no pity for Chinese people… and it’s a bit of an exageration, because of course I have a general pity for those less fortunate than me… but I’ll throw us back to Stuart’s comment at the top… and add that this country needs to stop asking for the pity of other countries (however subtly) and start bucking up to the responsibility of sorting things out.

The end of the day… all this means is you are a better friend to China than me… and I’m betting I could find a crapload of people willing to tell us both so.

@Phoebe: Enrique Basurto, Carl Vargas… churrasco… estivation… and dinosaurs I’ll not even attempt to spell… damn I miss those Fantasy books.

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:50:35 +0000

To many points to discuss. I’m in my 6th year here now, so I’ve heard ‘Dalian is a beautiful city’ so many times that I dream about it, same way I can quote the Fantasy and SBS books verbatim. However, I find it strangely touching that the Dalianese have such a strong civic pride. Okay, most of them have never been anywhere else, I asked my students, ‘What’s the most interesting place you’ve ever been to?’ and one of them said, “The Library”. Nevertheless, bless ‘em.