I've been off the grid for the last fortnight, having that vertiginous off-the-chart experience travel in China always offers me.
This year's trip is to the relatively untouristed northeast - 辽宁 Liaoning and 内蒙 Inner Mongolia. We started in 大连 Dalian, a just century-old city on the coast. In the mountains of 赤峰 Chifeng we encountered the 辽代 Liao Dynasty, which ruled northern China for two centuries a thousand years ago, soon trumped by the 红山文化 Hongshan Culture, dating back 5000-6500 years. But even human history feels recent here, as a visit to 朝阳 Chaoyang reminded us, where we saw fossils of dinosaurs, pterosaurs and early angiosperms named after every place we'd been!
Back to grim US and New School realities on Friday.