February 01, 2007

Northeast China: Journey to the Sky Pool

Kai Chang, Zuky

In the summer of 2001, I set out across northeast China (once called Manchuria) with a contingent of almost two dozen family members. We traveled in two small buses: one full of Changs, the other full of luggage. The purpose of the trip was two-fold: to fulfill my grandfather’s last wish of making donations to several schools he attended in China, humble institutions from which he had emerged to become a leading modern surgeon in China at that time; and to see and learn something about our ancestral land.

February 01, 2007

Northeast China: Journey to the Sky Pool

Kai Chang, Zuky

In the summer of 2001, I set out across northeast China (once called Manchuria) with a contingent of almost two dozen family members. We traveled in two small buses: one full of Changs, the other full of luggage. The purpose of the trip was two-fold: to fulfill my grandfather’s last wish of making donations to several schools he attended in China, humble institutions from which he had emerged to become a leading modern surgeon in China at that time; and to see and learn something about our ancestral land.

September 12, 2006

Sukur Kingdom: Day I - Photo Essay

Kevin O'Rourke

Next we were taken on a tour of the palace, which isn�t what you might expect from the name. It consists of several dry stone walls and gateways, with a little compound of huts where the king lives with his wife. There�s also a hut for the king�s horse, a bull-fattening pen and the hut formerly used for dispensing justice.