Visual Arts

 

1   Photographic Pieces and Short Videos by Ke Ping

 

2   Sketches and Oils by Ke Ping

 

1   Photographic Pieces and Short Videos by Ke Ping

 

Anhui Province, China

Caishi Precipice, Ma’anshan (马鞍山采石矶)

Jingxian County, Xuancheng (宣城市泾县)

Langya Hills, Chuzhou (滁州琅琊山)

Lingyang, Qingyang County, Chizhou (池州市青阳县凌阳镇)

Arts and Literature

Buildings and Structures

Literature

Paintings and Sculpture

Performing Arts

Daily Life

 

Beijing, China

 

Figures, Portraits, & Animals

 

The Four Seasons

 

France

Paris

Fontainebleau and Barbizon

The Loire Valley

Fujian Province, China

Xiamen (厦门)

Henan Province, China

Yinxu (殷墟, ruins of Yin, capital of the later years of the Shang dynasty)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Disneyland

The University of Hong Kong

Hunan Province, China

Zhangjiajie (张家界) National Forest Park

Human Society and Humanities

 

Inner Mongolia, China

 

Jiangsu Province, China

Changzhou (常州)

Danyang (丹阳)

Huai'an (淮安)

Taizhou (泰州)

Tongli, Suzhou (苏州同里)

Zhouzhuang, Suzhou (苏州周庄)

Yangzhou (扬州)

Zhengjiang (镇江)

Jiangxi Province, China

Wuyuan (婺源)

Language and Translation

FIT World Translation Congress: XVIII

Macau

Natural environment

The Historic Centre of Macao on the Macau peninsula

Other sites and buildings of interest on the Macau peninsula

Taipa (凼仔) and Coloane (路環)

People and society

Arts and literature

The University of Macau

Mountains, Sky and Water

 

Nanjing, China

Natural environment

Traditional domestic buildings

Architecture of the years of the Nationalist government

Nanjing Weiwen Girls’ School (南京汇文女子中学 [1887-1951]) and Nanjing 4th Girls’ School (南京第四女子中学 [1951-1968])

Nanjing Renmin Secondary School (南京市人民中学 < the above two schools)

National Higher Normal School of Nanking (南京高等师范学校 [1914-1923])

Southeast University (东南大学 [1921-1927])

University of Nanking (金陵大学 [1888-1952)

Nanjing University (南京大学 < the above three tertiary institutions)

Paths and Streets

 

Research and Sources

 

Science and Technology

 

Shandong Province, China

Qufu (曲阜)

Mount Taishan (泰山)

Shanghai, China

 

Singapore

 

Thought and Mind

 

Trees and Plants

 

Yaya

1st year in the world

1 year later ...

2 years later ...

3 years later ...

4 years later ...

5 years later ...

6 years later ...

7 years later ...

8 years later ...

Themes:

Yunnan Province, China

Kunming (昆明)

Shangri-La (香格里拉)

River Jinsha (金沙江)

Yulong Snow Mountains (玉龙雪山)

Lijiang (丽江)

Dali (大理)

Zhejiang Province, China 

Xikou (溪口)

Xitang (西塘)

Wuzhen (乌镇)

Legacy Home Page Photos

 

Legacy Photos of Nanjing, England, and the United States

 

 


 

1   Photographic Pieces and Short Videos by Ke Ping

Anhui Province, China

Jingxian County, Xuancheng (宣城市泾县)

The Taiping Lake (太平湖) (安徽省宣城市泾县陈村水库库区)

 

Langya Hills, Chuzhou (滁州琅琊山)

Zuiwengting (醉翁亭 or “The Old Drunkard Pavilion,” originally constructed in 1046), which takes its name from the title of an essay by Ouyang Xiu (欧阳修, 1007-1072), a Chinese official and man of letters of the Song Dynasty who styled himself “醉翁” or “Old Drunkard”

“The Old Drunkard Pavilion”

A pavilion in a neighboring court

A plum tree planted by Ouyang Xiu

 

Lingyang, Qingyang County, Chizhou (池州市青阳县凌阳镇)

The Nanliu Bridge (南流桥), built in the reign of Emperor Jiaqing (嘉庆) (1796-1820):  1  2  3

An old house:  The hall leading to the backyardThe back door; Leaves of grass growing out of crevices on an old wall

 

Ma’anshan (马鞍山)

Caishi Precipice, Ma’anshan (采石矶), a rocky cliff projecting over onto the Yangtze River:  1  2

 

Arts and Literature

Buildings and Structures

Childhood home

A house (Carmel, California, U.S)

Students' residence hall (Penn State University, U.S.)

Skyscrapers & sculpture (NYC, U.S)

St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao

A wooden hut in the compound of Bijiamei Restaurant (比家美饭庄) in Lishui (溧水), Nanjing

An old house relocated from South Anhui (Collection of Zhou Hetong [周贺桐]):  1  2  3

 

Literature

Bei Dao, Yan Geling, Sheng Keyi, etc. giving a talk during the 3rd Macau Literary Festival (March, 2014; University of Macau)

The former residence of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Luis de Camoes (1524 or 1525 - 1580, Portugal’s national poet, author of Os Lusiads, taken in Camões Park, Macau)

Hugo and Zola in the crypt of the Pantheon, Paris

 

Paintings and Sculpture

Camille Corot (1796-1875): Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864) (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Louis David (1748-1825): Les Sabines (Detail) (1799) (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875): Bergere et Troupeau (The Shepherdess and the Sheep)

Venus de Milo (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

A statue in front of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris

Jean Baptiste Carpeau (1827-1875): Alexandre Dumas Fils et sa Femme (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Jean Baptiste Carpeau (1827-1875): Madame Delthil de Fontreal (1871) (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

The smiling Virgin Mary and Child (Our Lady of Carmel Church in Taipa, Macau)

 

Performing Arts

Opéra Garnier (1875), Paris, a grandiose consecration of the "Napoleon III style"

The Divertimento Piano Trio (萦回钢琴三重奏乐团) performing in the Military Club, Macau

The Boston Symphony Orchestra performing in the Venetian Macao's theatre

Students of the Pius X Conservatory of Music of Macau performing in St. Dominic's Church, Macau

The guitarist of a Portuguese trio performing in Dom Pedro V Theatre (岗顶剧院, built in 1860, one of the 1st western theaters in China), Macau

The Boston Symphony Orchestra performing in the Venetian Macao's theatre

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)’s The Importance of Being Earnest staged at the Dom Pedro V Theatre, Macau

Sleeping Beauty staged by Russian State Ballet at Nanjing Baoli Theater

The Swan Lake staged by Russian State Ballet at Nanjing Cultural and Art Center

 

Beijing, China

Woods and hills (Pinggu [平谷])

The leftover of the Ming city walls near the Railway Arch for the Round-the Capital Railway (明城墙遗存)

The corner tower of Beijing's Dongbianmen City Gate (东便门角楼)

The Railway Arch for the Round-the-Capital Railway (hollowed out of the ancient city wall near Dongbianmen City Gate) (火车券洞)

Shishahai (什刹海)

A street by the Residence of Prince Yixin (, 1832-1898)

The Residence of Prince Yixin (, 1832-1898) (恭王府):  1  2  3

China Foreign Languages Publishing and Distribution Administration

 

Daily Life

A wedding at a village church, Barbizon, France

A bride bobbing a curtsy to her mother-in-law (statue), the family home of the late Chinese premier Zhou Enlai (周恩来), Huai'an (淮安), Jiangsu Province

Guangbixiang (光壁巷), Lijiang, Yun’nan Province

The 2nd Youth Olympic Games (Nanjing, 2014), Football semi-finals:  1  2  3  4

The “Yaochi Ecological Trip” scenic area at Yaxi (桠溪镇瑶池生态之旅风光带) (Gaochun County, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), China’s 1st international slow city (Cittaslow International, 2010)

A hot-air balloon in the “Yaochi Ecological Trip” scenic area at Yaxi, taken in Dept. of English's 2015 spring outing

 

Figures, Portraits, and Animals

Diudiu: Concentration

Diudiu: Birthday

Diudiu: Pausing for breath on a trip

Lina and Diudiu: Looking in the same direction  1  2

A squirrel half making his mind to come out of his nest

Two little girls in Hong Kong..5x3S200K_20140125DSC-RX100 03093.jpg

 

The Four Seasons

First days of spring

Oilseed rape flowers covering a river bank

A hydrangea tree on a sunny spring day

The height of spring

Bristlegrass (summer)

Winter's sun (Ely, U.K.)

 

France (July-August, 2004)

Paris

City skyline

The Seine

The Seine: Pont Neuf ("new bridge", 1607) at the western tip of Île de la Cité, which is however the oldest of Paris' bridges

UNESCO, where I worked in the summer of 2004

UNESCO: Fontenoy gate

Rue de Rennes

Café de Flore, the so-called "Existentialist Cafe", where French existentialists used to meet and where Zhou Enlai, Leon Trotsky, and Earnest Hemingway frequented in the early 20th century when they were in Paris

L'avenue des Champs Elysées (name of the avenue referring eponymously to the abode of the heroic mortals of Ancient Greece and Rome: the Elysian Fields): To Place de la Concorde

Bastille Day on L'avenue des Champs Elysées

Amazed eyes

A dog vagrant with its owner

Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower)

Tour Eiffel: Arched legs set on masonry piers

Sorbonne (Universites de Paris), where Madame Curie studied

Pantheon, formerly the Church of Sainte Geneviève in Paris, designed (1764) in the classical style by the French architect Jacques Germain Soufflot, now the resting place of Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Émile Zola, Madam Curie, and many other French heroes

Pantheon: Tombs of Hugo and Zola in the crypt

Notre Dame de Paris: The Sunday Mass

Hôtel des Invalides, built by Louis XIV (1638-1715) in 1670 as a hospice for war veterans

Hôtel des Invalides: The Court

Hôtel des Invalides: Tombeau de Napoleon

The statue of Denis Diderot (1713-1784) on the Boulevard St Germain

A statue in front of the Hôtel de Ville (town hall)

Opéra Garnier (1875), a grandiose consecration of the "Napoleon III style"

École des Beaux Arts, where Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, Wu Guanzhong, and many other major artists and fine arts educators of modern China studied in the early 20th century

Musée d'Orsay

Musée d'Orsay: Jean Baptiste Carpeau (1827-1875): Alexandre Dumas Fils et sa Femme

Musée d'Orsay: Jean Baptiste Carpeau (1827-1875): Madame Delthil de Fontreal (1871)

Musée du Louvre: Le Grande Galerie, the main picture gallery

Musée du Louvre: Venus de Milo

Musée du Louvre: Louis David (1748-1825): Les Sabines (Detail) (1799)

Musée du Louvre: Camille Corot (1796-1875): Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864)

Montmartre (The highest natural feature in Paris; a haven for artists in the 20th century, the birthplace of modern art)

Montmartre: Basilique du Sacré-Coeur (1919), built on the summit of the hill of Montmartre to honor a vow made in 1870 to provide a sanctuary for the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the basis of a public subscription

 

Fontainebleau and Barbizon

Fontainebleau (small town in the Fontainebleau Forest, southeast of Paris; residence for the kings of France, including Francis I, Henry IV, Louis XIII, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, Louis Philippe, and Napoleon III; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until 1965)

Fontainebleau Forest

Renaissance palais (palace): A distant view

Rue Paul Seremy (a street named after the former mayor of the town, who served the local residents in his office for 33 years, from 1959 to 1992)

 

Barbizon (village of painters at the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau, birthplace of the Barbizon School [1830-1870])

Entrance to the village

A quiet street

Millet's house and studio: interior

Millet: Bergere et Troupeau (The Shepherdess and the Sheep)

Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867)'s house and studio

Wedding at the village church

Nature and art

 

The Loire Valley

Villandry (southwest of Tours)

Châteaux: Sitting-room

 

Chenonceaux (northwestern France, 29 km east of Tours)

Châteaux (construction begun in 1515 by Thomas Bohier, revenue collector for King Francis I; later became the favorite residence of Henry II's widow Catherine de Médicis, whose son Francis II and Mary, Queen of Scots, were married here in 1560. In 1747 Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived here, as he wrote in The Confessions, "we went to pass the autumn in Touraine, at the castle of Chenonceaux, a royal mansion upon the Cher, built by Henry the II., for Diana of Poitiers, of whom the ciphers are still seen, and which is now in the possession of M. Dupin, a farmer-general. We amused ourselves very agreeably in this beautiful place, and lived very well ... Music was a favorite relaxation. I composed several trios full of harmony, and of which I may perhaps speak in my supplement if ever I should write one. Theatrical performances were another resource. I wrote a comedy in fifteen days, entitled l'Engagement temeraire... I composed several other little things: amongst others a poem entitled, l'Allee de Sylvie, from the name of an alley in the park upon the bank of the Cher; and this without discontinuing my chemical studies." [Book VII])

Châteaux: Five Queens' Bedroom, thus named in honor of Catherine de Médicis' two daughters (Queen Margot, wife of Henry IV; and Elizabeth of France, wife of Philip II of Spain), and three daughters-in-law (Mary Stuart, wife of François II; Elizabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX; and Louise of Lorrain, wife of Henry III)

 

Chambord (central France)

A small town passed by on the way from Chenonceaux to Chambord

Châteaux (a retreat for French kings, especially Louis XIV [ruled 1643-1715]; construction begun by Francis I in 1519 and completed in 1547; Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci added a few embellishments to it; World Heritage site)

 

Fujian Province, China

Xiamen (厦门)

Hulishan Battery (胡里山炮台, built in 1891, known for its Krupp 280 coastal gun):  1  2  3

Zhongshan Road (中山路) in downtown Xiamen

A quiet neighborhood on the Gulangyu Island (鼓浪屿, an international settlement in late Qing and Republican years)

The church on the Gulangyu Island where Lin Yutang (1895-1976) married his wife

Dr Lin Qiaozhi (林巧稚, 1901-1983) Memorial Place on the Gulangyu Island:  1  2

Shu Ting (舒婷)'s childhood home on the Gulangyu Island

Jimei Educational Institution (集美学村, started in 1913)

The conference room in the residence of Chen Jiageng (陈嘉庚, 1874-1961)

Xiamen University: A pavilion in memory of Chen Jingxian (陈敬贤, 1889-1936, co-founder of the Jimei Educational Institution)

 

Henan Province, China

Yinxu (殷墟ruins of the Yin City, capital of the later years of the Shang dynasty [1600 BC-1046 BC]), Anyang

1  2  (April, 2009)

 

Hong Kong

A distant view of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ladies shoe model (Landmark, Central)

The night scene of Lan Kwai Fong in Central..5x3S200K_20140125DSC-RX100 03100.jpg

 

Hong Kong Disneyland

Hong Kong Disneyland..5x3S200K_20140124DSC-RX100 02866.jpg

Hong Kong Disneyland - The Mystic Manor (home to an eccentric eccentricworld traveler and adventurer and his collection of exotic artifacts)..5x3S200K_20140124DSC-RX100 02905.jpg

Dance performance in Hong Kong Disneyland.5x3S200K_20140124DSC-RX100 02921.jpg

 

The University of Hong Kong

The University of Hong Kong - A red-brick house opposite the Dept. of English..5x3S200K_20140125DSC-RX100 03050.jpg

The University of Hong Kong - Department of English..5x3S200K_20140125DSC-RX100 03034.jpg

The University of Hong Kong - Department of English..5x3S200K_20140125DSC-RX100 03060.jpg

University of Hong Kong, founded by the London Missionary Society in 1887..5x3S200K_20140125DSC-RX100 03081.jpg

 

Human Society and Humanities

The Holy House of Mercy of Macau (澳门仁慈堂, 1569, a branch of Santa Casa da Misericordia)..5x3S200K_20131209DSC-RX100 03660.jpg

The Holy House of Mercy of Macau (1569) - A view of the Senado Sqaure from the balcony of the Holy House of Mercy of Macau (1569)..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03678.jpg

The Holy House of Mercy of Macau (1569) 3 - The meeting room..5x3.3R240_20140410DSC-RX100 03674.jpg

The Holy House of Mercy of Macau (1569) - Sacred objects..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03671.jpg

The Holy House of Mercy of Macau (1569) - A print depicting Catholic charity practices..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03686.jpg

 

Hunan Province, China

Zhangjiajie (张家界) National Forest Park

Tall quartzite sandstone pillars (karst formation) at Wulingyuan (武陵源, UNESCO World Heritage Site)  1  2

Shimmering light in the woods

A brook at the foot of the mountains

 

Inner Mongolia, China  (August, 2006)

Xilamuren: Gers (Mongolian tents)

Xilamuren: Aobao (Mongolian herdsmen's signpost and altar, made of stones and bricks)

Xilamuren: Litter around a Mongolian holiday village  {Tourists: What's the point of traveling to a place you love and polluting it with your garbage?}

Xilamuren: Stretches of clouds in a wide expanse of sky

Xilamuren: Dry meadows

Xilamuren: A trail leading to the depths of the grassland

Xilamuren: Wind and fleeting clouds

Xilamuren: Three horses

Xilamuren: Mongolian wrestling

Xilamuren: On desertificated grassland

Xiangsha Wan (Singing Sand Desert): Kneeling camels

Xiangsha Wan: Parasailing (a kind of extreme sport)

Hohhot:  An old street

Diversiform-leaved poplars

A quiet afternoon

 

Jiangsu Province, China

Changzhou (常州)

A covered bridge in Hongmei Park in Changzhou..5x3S200K_20140826DSC-RX100 04201.jpg

Qianhou Bei'an (a neighborhood in Central Changzhou where many famous people in history once lived)..5x3S200K_20140826DSC-RX100 04187.jpg

Tianning Temple (901-904) - The Tianning Pagoda (153.79 m, the highest buddest pagoda in China, rebuilt in 2005)..5x3S200K_20140826DSC-RX100 04226.jpg

Tianning Temple (901-904)..5x3S200K_20140826DSC-RX100 04223.jpg

The Dinosaur Park in Changzhou....5x3S200K_20140825DSC-RX100 04136.jpg

The Dinosaur Park in Changzhou..5x3S200K_20140825DSC-RX100 04167.jpg

 

Danyang (丹阳)

Old houses in Jiuli (九里), Ji Zi's (季子) hometown [季子:春秋時吳王壽夢少子。不受君位,封於延陵,號延陵季子,省稱季子歷聘各國,過徐,徐君愛其劍,季子為使上國,未與。及返,徐君已死,乃係其寶劍於徐君冢樹而去。事見《史記吳太伯世家》。(据《汉语大词典》)]

 

Huai'an (淮安)

A wood of tall poplars in the Ancient Huaihe River valley (mid-spring)

A wild duck (specimen)

A bride bobbing a curtsy to her mother-in-law (statues)

The family home of the late Chinese premier Zhou Enlai (周恩来): 1  2  3  4  5

 

Taizhou (泰州)

A Chinese crabapple tree in the court of Mei Lanfang Memorial Museum (梅兰芳纪念馆)

 

Tongli, Suzhou (苏州同里)

Riverside homes

 

Zhouzhuang, Suzhou (苏州周庄)

A quiet passageway

Riverside homes

 

Yangzhou (扬州)

The Tianle Lake (天乐湖)

A cable bridge over the Tianle Lake

An organic orchard with free-range chickens:  1  2

 

Zhengjiang (镇江)

An alley leading to the old Xijin Ferry (西津古渡): 1  2

The Dinghui Temple at Jiaoshan (焦山定慧寺) (name bestowed by Emperor Kangxi [1654-1722]) 1  2

The Jiaoshan Battery (焦山炮台), which was used together with the Xiangshan Battery for controlling the passage of vessels on the Yangtze during the Opium Wars (1839-1860) 1  2

The Jiaoshan Museum of Ancient Steles (焦山碑林): A passage outside it  and A stele inscribed with a text handwritten by Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799)

 

Jiangxi Province, China

Wuyuan (婺源)

Rainbow Bridge (A long covered wooden bridge dating back to the 12th century):  1  2  3

Ancient camphor trees skirting an eco-friendly mountain village (Xiaoqi)

Woodcarvings on the facade of a house built in the Qing dynasty (Yancun)

The firewall in an old house (Yancun)

 

Language and Translation

The statue of Matteo Ricci (利马窦, 1552-1610, Italian Jesuit priest) near Mount Fortress, Macau

 

XVIII FIT World Translation Congress (International Convention Center, Shanghai, China; August 4-7, 2008)

The Bund at night

Opening ceremony

Peter Krawutschke, President of FIT, delivering the opening address

Keynote Speakers: Wu JianminYohannes Mengesha

Coffee break

Parallel session on Online Translation Teaching

Parallel session on CAT and MT: State of the Art (2)

Parallel session on Social Science Translation

Parallel session on Publishing and Copyright in the Middle East, Asia, and Australia:  1  2

Panel on Training Interpreter Trainers

Parallel session on Teaching and Training in T & I:  1  2

 

Macau

Natural environment

A bird's eye view of Macau from Penha Hill (西望洋山)..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03421.jpg

An old banyan tree on Barra Hill (妈阁山)..5x3S200K_20140104DSC-RX100 02651.jpg

Lush vegetation at the foot of Mount Fortress (大炮台, constructed in 1616)..5x3S200K_20131209DSC-RX100 02450.jpg

The ancient banyan tree at St. Augustine's Square (岗顶前地)..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03499.jpg

 

The Historic Centre of Macao on the Macau peninsula (a collection of over twenty locations inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site List [2005; 29th Session])

Dom Pedro V Theatre (岗顶剧院, built in 1860), one of the 1st western theatres in China..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03450.jpg

Dom Pedro V Theatre, one of the 1st western theatres in China..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03460.jpg

Dom Pedro V Theatre, one of the 1st western theatres in China..5x3S200K_20140517DSC-RX100 03462.jpg

Guia Fortress complex (东望洋炮台, constructed between 1622 and 1638)..5x3S200K_20140613DSC-RX100 04004.jpg

Guia Fortress complex..5x3S200K_20140613DSC-RX100 03978.jpg

The headquarters of the Macau delegation of the Orient Foundation (东方基金会) in Casa Garden..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03704.jpg

The Leal Senado Building (民政总署大楼, built in 1784) on Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro..5x3S200K_20131209DSC-RX100 02420.jpg

The Mandarin's House (鄭家大屋, built in 1881), home of Zheng Guanying (1842-1921, author of Shengshi Weiyan)..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03405.jpg

The Mandarin's House, home of Zheng Guanying (1842-1921, author of Shengshi Weiyan)..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03341.jpg

The Mandarin's House, home of Zheng Guanying (1842-1921, author of Shengshi Weiyan)..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03409.jpg

A mural in the Mandarin's House featuring stories from The Illustrated 24 Examples of Filial Piety..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03393.jpg

The Mandarin's House, home of Zheng Guanying (1842-1921, author of Shengshi Weiyan)..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03411.jpg

The Ruins of St. Paul's (大三巴牌坊, built between 1602 and 1635, burned in 1835)..5x3S200K_20131209DSC-RX100 02445.jpg

The Ruins of St. Paul's..5x3S200K_20140203DSC-RX100 02446.jpg

Sir Robert Ho Tung Library (何東圖書館), a mansion built in 1894 and once owned by Ho Tung (1862-1956, HK businessman and philanthropist), who resided there during the Japanese occupation of HK..5x3S200K_20140309DSC-RX100 03496.jpg

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady (天主教澳门教区聖母聖誕主教座堂, built before 1576), The Cathedral of Macau)..5x3S200K_20131224DSC-RX100 02500.jpg

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady (The Cathedral of Macau)..5x3S200K_20131224DSC-RX100 02505.jpg

Macau Protestant Chapel, known as Morrison Chapel (马礼逊教堂, built before 1833)..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03709.jpg

Macau Protestant Chapel, known as Morrison Chapel, built before 1833..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03714.jpg

The Old Protestant Cemetery (基督教墳場, established by the British East India Company in 1821)..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03726.jpg

The Old Protestant Cemetery..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03729.jpg

The Old Protestant Cemetery...5x3S300K_20140410DSC-RX100 03730.jpg

St. Anthony's Church (聖安多尼教堂, 通稱花王堂, built in 1638), one of the oldest churches in Macau..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03692.jpg

St. Anthony's Church (1638), one of the oldest churches in Macau..5x3S200K_20140410DSC-RX100 03696.jpg

St. Joseph's Seminary (聖若瑟修院), started to be built in 1728..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03501.jpg

St. Lawrence's Church (聖老楞佐教堂, 通稱風順堂, built in the 1560s), one of the oldest churches in Macau..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03331.jpg

 

Other sites and buildings of interest on the Macau peninsula

Penha Church (西望洋聖堂, Church of Our Lady of Penha on Penha Hill, built in 1622) viewed from Avenida da Republica..5x3S200K_20140104DSC-RX100 03224.jpg

Penha Church (Church of Our Lady of Penha on Penha Hill) overlooking Macau..5x3S200K_20140202DSC-RX100 03431.jpg

St. Lazarus' Church (望德聖母堂, built between 1557 and 1560), one of the oldest churches in Macau..5x3S200K_20131224DSC-RX100 02514.jpg

St. Lazarus' Church, one of the oldest churches in Macau..5x3S200K_20131224DSC-RX100 02516.jpg

St. Lazarus' Church, one of the oldest churches in Macau..5x3.3R240_20131224DSC-RX100 02518.jpg

The Military Club (陆军俱乐部, built in 1870)..5x3S200K_20131218DSC-RX100 02483.jpg

Sun Yat Sen Memorial House (澳门國父紀念館), built by Dr. Sun’s brother Sun Mei in 1918..5x3S200K_20140105DSC-RX100 02753.jpg

Kiang Wu Hospital (镜湖医院, built in 1871), where Dr. Sun Yat-sen began to work in 1892 as the first Chinese doctor in Macao trained in western medicine....5x3.3R240_20140613DSC-RX100_.jpg

A tiny library by the historical Rua do Campo (水坑尾街)..5x3S200K_20140105DSC-RX100_.jpg

Hotel Lisboa Macau (老匍京, built in 1970) and Grand Lisboa Macau (新匍京) (built in 2007)..5x3S200K_20131224DSC-RX100 02494.jpg

Fisherman's Wharf (渔人码头, European-style nostalgic leisure and shopping district, built between 2000 and 2005) - A structure in imitation of ancient Roman buildings..5x3S200K_20140130DSC-RX100 03308.jpg

Fisherman's Wharf - Rocks Hotel (a 3-star hotel)..5x3.3R240_20140130DSC-RX100 03252.jpg

 

Taipa (凼仔) and Coloane (路環)

A one-room temple in Coloane..5x3S200K_20140129DSC-RX100 03222.jpg

Our Lady of Carmel Church in Taipa (嘉模聖母堂, built in 1885 and rebuilt in 1985) 1..5x3S200K_20131225DSC-RX100 02565.jpg

Our Lady of Carmel Church in Taipa 2 - The smiling Virgin Mary and Child..5x3S200K_20131225DSC-RX100 02591.jpg

The Taipa Houses-Museum (龍環葡韻住宅式博物館, built before 1921) 1..5x3S200K_20140612DSC-RX100 02548.jpg

The Taipa Houses-Museum 2..5x3S200K_20140128DSC-RX100 02556.jpg

The Taipa Houses-Museum 3..5x3S200K_20140128DSC-RX100 02555.jpg

The Taipa Houses-Museum 4..5x3S200K_20140128DSC-RX100 02559.jpg

Tthe Taipa Houses-Museum 5 - Lotus flowers on the way to the Museum...5x3S300K_20140612DSC-RX100 03925.jpg

The Venetian Macao (威尼斯人度假村, hotel and casino resort, the largest hotel in Asia and the second largest structure in the world, built between 2005 and 2007, owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corp.) 1 - Night scene..5x3S200K_20140126 RX1c 03141.jpg

The Venetian Macao 2 - Man-made sky..5x3S200K_20140126 RX1c 03145.jpg

The Venetian Macao 3 - Canal Shopping Street..5x3S200K_20140126 RX1c 03150.jpg

The civil library in Coloane..5x3S200K_20140129DSC-RX100 03234.jpg

 

People and society

The statue of Jorge Alvares (区华利_-1521, 1st Portuguese explorer to have reached China) on the Jorge Alvares Square..5x3S200K_20140104DSC-RX100.jpg

The statue of Matteo Ricci (利马窦, 1552-1610, Italian Jesuit priest) near Mount Fortress..5x3S200K_20131209DSC-RX100 02452.jpg

A boy at the Xmas mass in Our Lady of Carmel Church in Taipa..5x3S200K_20131225DSC-RX100 02582.jpg

Two girl scouts on the Tap Seac Plaza (塔石廣場, built in 2007) when the 30th anniversary of the General Association of the Scouts of Macao was celebrated..5x3S200K_20140105DSC-RX100 02732.jpg

A parade on the Tap Seac Plaza (built in 2007) to mark the 30th anniversary of the General Association of the Scouts of Macao..5x3S200K_20140105DSC-RX100 02739.jpg

A parade on the Tap Seac Plaza (built in 2007) to mark the 30th anniversary of the General Association of the Scouts of Macao..5x3S200K_20140105DSC-RX100 02741.jpg

 

Arts and literature

Lanterns installed on the rotunda opposite the Bus No. 37 by the New Century Hotel in the Xmas season..5x3S200K_20131220DSC-RX100 02489.jpg

The Script Road - 3rd Macau Literary Festival - A talk given by Bei Dao, Yan Geling, Sheng Keyi, etc. at the University of Macau..5x3S200K_20140321DSC-RX100 03595.jpg

The Script Road - 3rd Macau Literary Festival_5x3.3R350_20140323DSC-RX100 03610.jpg

The Script Road - 3rd Macau Literary Festival - A book launching event featuring Christina Mui Bing Cheng..5x3S200K_20140325DSC-RX100 03624.jpg

The Script Road - 3rd Macau Literary Festival - Portuguese photographer working for the Festival..5x3S200K_20140325DSC-RX100 03630.jpg

The Divertimento Piano Trio (萦回钢琴三重奏乐团) performing in the Military Club..5x3S200K_20140102DSC-RX100 02614.jpg

The Divertimento Piano Trio performing in the Military Club..5x3S200K_20140102DSC-RX100 02617.jpg

The Divertimento Piano Trio and students of the Pius X Conservatory of Music of Macau (庇护十世音乐学院) performing together..5x3S200K_20140105DSC-RX100 02726.jpg

Students of the Pius X Conservatory of Music of Macau performing in St. Dominic's Church..5x3S200K_20140105RX1c02718.jpg

The guitarist of a Portuguese trio performing in Dom Pedro V Theatre (岗顶剧院, built in 1860)_5x3.3R350_20140608DSC-RX100 03909.jpg

The Boston Symphony Orchestra performing in the Venetian Macao's theatre..5x3S200K_20140531DSC-RX100 03848.jpg

 

The University of Macau

The University of Macau - Terrace garden in the center of the old campus..5x3S200K_20131011DSC-RX100 02284.jpg

The University of Macau - My office (P 212) at the old campus..5x3S200K_20140606DSC-RX100 02286.jpg

The University of Macau - My office (P 212) at the old campus - Yaya's Year 2013 Xmas card, which arrived 2 weeks late.5x3S100K_20140110DSC-RX100 02781.jpg

The University of Macau - My office (P212) at the old campus - A view of the sea out of the window..5x3S200K_20140526DSC-RX100 02288.jpg

The University of Macau - The new campus on Hengqin Island - Central Teaching Building..5x3S200K_20131001DSC-RX100 02298.jpg

The University of Macau - The New campus on Hengqin Island - University Library..5x3S200K_20131001DSC-RX100 02296.jpg

On a bridge at the new campus of the University of Macau (Taken by Dai Guangrong)..5x3S200K_20131001Canon EOS 7D_.jpg

A retreat of the Department of English towards the end of the Spring semester_IMG_3517.JPG

With Dr. John Valdeon at A-Ma Temple (妈阁庙, built in 1488)..5x3S200K_20131209DSC-RX100 02415.jpg

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities' 2013 Xmas party in Grand Emperor Hotel_5x3.3R350_20131205DSC-RX100 02406.jpg

At FAH's 2013 Xmas party in Grand Emperor Hotel_5x3.3R350_20131205DSC-RX100 02381.jpg

With Defeng, Yuanjian, and Victoria..5x3S200K_20140603DSC-RX100 03874.jpg

With my students at UM (Section 2 of B281) after the last class session..5x3S200K_20140523DSC-RX100 03827.jpg

Joseph Stiglitz (2014) giving a lecture in UM on the price of inequality..5x3S200K_20140328DSC-RX100 03635.jpg

Kit Kelen's friend (HKU) giving a talk on translating classical Chinese poetry..5x3S200K_20140314GT-N7108_.jpg

Yang Chen Ning (杨振宁) (2014)’s lecture in UM on his experience of schooling and research..5x3S200K_20140221GT-N7108 304.jpg

Yang Chen Ning (杨振宁) (2014) before giving a lecture in UM on his experience of schooling and research..5x3S200K_20140221GT-N7108_.jpg

 

Mountains, Sky and Water

Distant mountains

Hawaii (Hawaii, U.S.)

Nature and art (Barbizon, France)

Mid-spring sky viewed from the Purple Mountains, Nanjing:  1  2  3

A full moon in early spring

A diving seagull (Sand Dune Beach, Monterey, California, U.S.)

The clouds and the kite

On the way to Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park  (California, U.S.)

Tall quartzite sandstone pillars (karst formation) at Wulingyuan (武陵源, UNESCO World Heritage Site), Zhangjiajie (张家界) National Forest Park

A brook at the foot of the mountains, Zhangjiajie (张家界) National Forest Park:

Sea waves behind a sand hollow

White waves rolling up the beach

Mounds of sand on the beach

A boat patrolling the sea

A rising spring tide

Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal: Boats by an islet

Seaside

 

Nanjing, China

Natural environment

A buddhist pagoda at Niushoushan (牛首山, Niushou Hill)

Willows by the Yangtze River in spring

The Yanzhi Riveret (胭脂河, a water course created in the Ming dynasty [1368-1644] to connect the Shijiu Lake [石臼湖] in Lishui County [溧水县] to the Qinhuai River [秦淮河] in Nanjing)

Shitou Cheng ("Stone City Wall" of the State of Chu [333 BC])

The city wall of Nanjing, the longest surviving one in the world, built by the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang towards the end of the 14th century..5x3S200K_20130908GT-N7108 170330.jpg

Qinhuai River: Night scene

Three trees by the lake

Willows in the wind

Xuanwu Lake:  1  2

A dove in the shadow

New home:  1  2

A young camphor tree in the morning sun

 

Traditional domestic buildings

An old house in Chenjia Paifang (陈家牌坊)

Riverside homes near Chenjia Paifang

An almost deserted compound in Yinma Xiang (饮马巷)

The former residence of Gan Xi (甘熙, a scholar in the late Qing period who passed the highest imperial examination ― dianshi [presided over by the emperor himself]):  1. A hallway  2. The wedding room of Yan Fengying (1930-1968), popular Huangmei opera actress

The Tingoo Inn (青果客舍1  2

 

Architecture of the years of the Nationalist government

Western-style houses and mansions on the Yihe Road (颐和路) and its neighboring streets:  1  2  3  4  5  6

The memorial pavilion at Heping Park (an example of the city's tolerance and respect for history)

The Presidential Palace of the Republic of China (1927-1937, 1946-1949):  1  2

A boulevard

Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum:  1  2

The villa of Madame Soong May-ling (1898-2003):  1  2

The former residence of John Rabe (1882-1950, Siemens businessman; head of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone [1937-1938], a designated area in Nanjing which protected Chinese civilians during the Nanking Massacre which lasted for six weeks after December 13, 1937 when Japanese Army entered the walled city of Nanking; author of The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe. [Random House, 1998].)1  2  3  4 (Women and kids sheltered in Ginling Women University [part of the Safety Zone]).

The Cemetery of Members of International Anti-Japanese Air Services (抗日航空烈士墓):  1  2  3  4  5  6

Dahua Movie Theater

 

Nanjing Weiwen Girls’ School (南京市汇文女子中学 [1887-1951]) and Nanjing 4th Girls’ School (南京市第四女子中学 [1951-1968]) (precursors of Nanjing Renmin Secondary School)

The Elementary School of ‘’沙小姐'', the predecessor of Nanjing Weiwen Girls’ School and Nanjing Renmin Secondary School_MHA-AL00 _3.95 mm1-35 (f - 2.2)0 EV ISO 400_32°3'2- N 118°46'53- E2017111211 mmexport1510550114045.jpg

Gate of the school_Canon EOS M5 EF24-105mm f-4L IS USM_40 mm1-160 (f - 7.1)-1-3 EV ISO 25600_2017111210 IMG_1102.jpg

Main teaching building_mmexport1459754157657.jpg

Principal's house (Weiwen Building) (Taken 20171112, on RSS's 130th anniversary)_mmexport1510566752753.jpg

Principal's house (Weiwen Building)_Canon EOS M5 EF24-105mm f-4L IS USM_24 mm1-640 (f - 14)0 EV ISO 25600_2017111210 IMG_1093.jpg

Campus (model)_Canon EOS M5 EF24-105mm f-4L IS USM_24 mm1-160 (f - 7.1)0 EV ISO 25600_2017111210 IMG_1099.jpg

 

Founder of the ‘’沙小姐学堂'’ and the 1st Chinese principal of Nanjing Weiwen Girls’ School (Taken 20171112, on Rss's 130th Anniversary)_mmexport1510550033657.jpg

Last principal appointed by the American Methodist Episcopal Church (Vintage photo)_Canon EOS M5 EF24-105mm f-4L IS USM_32 mm1-160 (f - 7.1)0 EV ISO 25600_2017111210 IMG_1098.jpg

Ms. Liu Fenzi, the 1st Chinese principal (bust) (Taken 20171112, on Rss's 130th Anniversary)_DSC-RX100 28-100mm F1.8-4.9_10.4 mm1-30 (f - 1.8)0 EV ISO 200_2017111210 DSC06895.jpg

Ms. Lin Fumei, Dean of Teaching Affairs (who taught me lexicology at Nanjing University)_Canon EOS M5 EF24-105mm f-4L IS USM_32 mm1-320 (f - 10)0 EV ISO 25600_2017111210 IMG_1097.jpg

 

News on extracurricular activities (Vintage photo)_Canon EOS M5 EF24-105mm f-4L IS USM_24 mm1-250 (f - 8.0)0 EV ISO 25600_2017111210 IMG_1094.jpg

Overseas Chinese students with their teacher (Vintage photo)_Canon EOS M5 EF24-105mm f-4L IS USM_45 mm1-320 (f - 10)-1-3 EV ISO 25600_2017111210 IMG_1110.jpg

Triplet sisters and their mom (Vintage photo)_Canon EOS M5 EF24-105mm f-4L IS USM_47 mm1-200 (f - 7.1)-1-3 EV ISO 25600_2017111210 IMG_1104.jpg

 

Nanjing Renmin Secondary School (南京市人民中学 [1968-present])

110th Anniversary of Rss - A letter to alumni on the anniversary celebration_e3ccef11298729a7cb81c793bd9f05b0.jpg

110th Anniversary of RSS - Group picture (Zhu Xizhu, Zhao Jun, Wang, Qi, Ke Ping, Hu Xiaojuan, Liu Yonglin, Lu Yaowu, Zhu Gang, and Song Yuzhen) (Taken 19971012).jpg

120th Anniversary of RSS - Group picture (Zhu Xizhu, Zhao Jun, Wang Qi, Lu Yaowu, Han Jinru, Li Jiejun, Dai Ping, Zhu Gang, Song Yuzhen, Li Zhilan, Fu Juan, Jin Boping, and Ju Wei) (Taken 20071002)_1600x1200-Q80.jpg

130th Anniversary of Rss - Group picture (30 classmates plus Yaya) (Taken 20171112)_Canon EOS M5 EF24-105mm f-4L IS USM_24 mm 1-320 (f - 5.0)0 EV ISO 100 IMG_1059.jpg

130th Anniversary of RSS - Resitting in the alma mater's classroom, raising hands at teacher's question (Taken 20171112)_mmexport1510567820390.jpeg

 

Ms. Chen Jupan, my music teacher_mmexport1460019842193_cr.jpg

Ms. Qiu Guifen, my form teacher at Nanjing Tongren Jie Primary School, who was also my alumna of Rss (Taken 20171112, on RSS's 130th anniversary)_mmexport1510548815703.jpg

Ms. Tang Rongxiu, my form teacher_mmexport1459998519943.jpeg

Ms. Tang Rongxiu and Mr. Sang Feili, my form teachers_148262608708465529.jpg

Ms. Sheng Yuqing, my form teacher, in bobbed hair_mmexport1501912181331.jpg

Ms. Sheng Yuqing, my form teacher, receiving my gift book (Taken 20160427)_mmexport1461728240784.jpg

Mr. Li Baolin, our maths teacher_mmexport1459430704792.jpeg

Mr. Cheng Bangyan, my physics teacher_mmexport1459753682585.jpeg

Ms. Shen Wan'er, my chemistry teacher (Taken 20171112, on RSS's 130th anniversary)_mmexport1510653459313.jpg

 

Han Jinru in theatrical makeup_hdImg_d35c0cb744fbf534403bb33504b46152.jpg

Jin Boping, Zhang Jiejun, Tang Jiamin_mmexport1460472745864.jpg

Ju Wei's Junior Secondary Schooling Certificate.jpg

Kong Xianglin_ac59235cd5f419779b31ea327a2ec53f.jpg

Li Jiejun_mmexport1438570443106.jpg

Liu Ningning_mmexport1459484190550.jpeg

Liu Yonglin in military uniform after being enlisted_mmexport1439626406579_cr.jpg

Liu Yonglin meeting Wang Minhua in a ''Xi'er and Dachun reunion'' fashion (Taken 20160504)_mmexport1462360820508.jpg

Lu Qixiang and Xu Jianjun_mmexport1484676567457.jpg

Ma Ning_mmexport1459998782109.jpg

Miao Weigang with Polish kids_mmexport1459754412781.jpeg

Wang Weijie, Li Heming, Dai Ping, Liu Xiaojun, and Miao Weigang at Zhongshanling (Taken 1970s)_mmexport1439786756018.jpg

Wang Weijie, Li Heming, Dai Ping, Liu Xiaojun, and Miao Weigang at Zhongshanling (Taken 20151000 again during Our Common 60th Birthday celebration)_mmexport1439786737484.jpg

Xuan Wanxiang_mmexport1476268926038.jpg

Yu Chongtao and Lu Guilin_mmexport1457491579370.jpg

Yu Tianjian (oil)_mmexport1507379836216.jpg

Zhu Xueming, Miao Weigang, and Wang Weijie_mmexport1459754215467.jpg

 

Main teaching building (my watercolor)

“Moments of Life in Grade 2, Senior High School” (高二生活纪实; based on the diary I kept in high school days: picture; text)

Poem by Li Heming: ''You Laoshi de Rizi Zhenhao''_mmexport1439965731693.jpg

Poem by Wang Weijie: ''Changfeng Gudong Shaonian Hao''_mmexport1439775931339.jpg

 

The official website of the school

 

National Higher Normal School of Nanking (南京高等师范学校 [1914-1923]; one of the precursors of the present-day Nanjing University)

Mei An (梅庵, "Plum Cottage"), the residence of Principal Jiang Qian (江谦, 1876-1942)

 

Southeast University (东南大学 [1921-1927]; one of the precursors of the present-day Nanjing University)

An old building

 

University of Nanking (金陵大学 [1888-1952]; one of the precursors of the present-day Nanjing University)

An old court  1  2

Severance Hall

An old office building

Sage Chapel

The bell pavilion

President Chen Yuguang (陈裕光, 1893-1989)

The former residence of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

The house where Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) used to stay

 

Nanjing University

The plane tree-lined avenue leading to the main classroom building

Pukou Campus: The observatory

Pukou Campus: Winter

Pukou Campus: Willows by the pond:  1  2

School of Foreign Studies: Seminar on development  (August, 2006)

School of Foreign Studies: Undergraduate Teaching Seminar  (June, 2006)

 

Academic visits

Prof. Cay Dollerup delivering a lecture  (June, 2006)

Prof. Nicky Harman giving a lecture on translation technology

Prof. Mona Baker's visit to Nanjing University  (May, 2006)1  2  3

 

Students

MA Students:  1  2 (Commencement day)

MTI Students:  1 (2010)  2 (1st class of full-time students)

PhD Students:

       Nanjing University's 2014 Commencement at which PhD. degrees were conferred

       My doctoral student Zhu Yubin after receiving a PhD. degree at the Commencement)

 

Department of English's spring and autumn excursions

2005 (“Smiles of three generations”, November 5; Fulai Hill, Rizhao, Shangdong Province [山东省日照市浮来山])

2011 (April 10; the Horticultural Exposition Park, Taizhou [泰州], Jiangsu Province)

2013 (April 21; Zhouyaun [周园], Lishui [溧水]), Jiangsu Province)

2015 (April 18; Gucheng Lake in Gaochun [高淳], Jiangsu Province)

 

The 110th anniversary of the University

Giving a talk on academic integrity at the Faculty seminar

Happy reunion: 1  2

Gala performance by undergraduates students of the SFS

Group picture with Prof. Wu Keming, our beloved mentor: 1  2

The university celebratory function at the gymnasium

An acupuncture therapy session for old classmates

 

The 100th anniversary of the School of Foreign Studies (formerly the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature)

0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15

 

Paths and Streets

A country road in the afternoon sunshine

Rhus Trail (Mountain Top Park, Monterey, California, U.S.)

Backlit old plane trees on a sunny spring day

 

Research and Sources

Prof. Yang Chen Ning (杨振宁)’s lecture in the University of Macau (February, 2014) on his experience of schooling and research

The civil library in Coloane, Macau

The Libray of the University of Macau on the New campus on Hengqin Island, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province

Sir Robert Ho Tung Library (何東圖書館), Macau (a mansion built in 1894 and once owned by Ho Tung [1862-1956], HK businessman and philanthropist)

 

Science and Technology

Sorbonne (Universites de Paris), where Madame Curie (1867-1934) studied

Dr. Lin Qiaozhi (林巧稚, 1901-1983) Memorial Place on the Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, Fujian Province

 

Shandong Province, China

Qufu (曲阜)

Konglin (孔林, The Family Cemetery of Confucius)

A carved balustrade on the Zhushui Bridge (洙水桥)

Trees by the tomb of Kong Li (孔鲤), son of Confucius

The tomb of Confucius

Where Zigong kept a devotional watch on his master's tomb for 6 years.

 

Kongmiao (孔庙, The Temple of Confucius)

The Dacheng Hall (大成殿)

The shrine of Confucius in the Dacheng Hall

 

Kongfu (孔府, The Kong Family Mansion)

The wedding room of Kung Te-cheng (孔德成), the 77th lineal descendant of Confucius

 

Mount Taishan (泰山)

At the foot of the mount

The shortest trail up to Nantianmen (南天门) from Zhongtianmen (中天门)

The top of Mount Taishan

Herbs in the late afternoon sun, seen on the way up to the Yueguan (Lunar-Viewing) Peak

The new moon over the Yueguan (Lunar-Viewing) Peak

 

Shanghai, China

The Yuyuan Garden (豫园):  1  2  3

Mansions on the Bund:  1  2  3  4

Yong'an Department Store (永安百货) at night

 

Singapore

Tropical vegetation at the foot of Fort Canning

South Bridge Road

National University of Singapore

Ministry of Education (MOE)

Giving a seminar at the MOE

Students:  1  2

A Presbyterian church

National Museum of Singapore:  1  2 (Moving images of the past)

 

Thought and Mind

A mural featuring stories from The Illustrated 24 Examples of Filial Piety (The Mandarin's House [built in 1881], Macau)

Zheng Guanying (郑观音, 1842-1921, author of《盛世危言》), in a family photo (The Mandarin's House [built in 1881], Macau)

 

Trees and Plants

A tree singing in the wind (Valparaiso, Indiana, U.S.)

A cypress in the Monterey Bay (California, U.S.)

Old trees in a courtyard (Carmel, California, U.S.)

A quiet afternoon

By the Huanshui River (洹水), Anyang, Henan, China

In full bloom

A pink daisy

The skeleton of an old tree in early spring

A hanging basket

A young tree in the afternoon sun

Willows by the Yangtze River in spring

A hydrangea tree on a sunny spring day

First green

A sapling with leaves sparkling in the rays of the afternoon sun

A bush backlit by the afternoon sun

Chinese crab apple flowers

A fern

Yaya’s Birthday Tree No. 7 (Osmanthus, planted in March, 2015)

Tiny flowers on the way to Langyashan (琅琊山, Langya Hills), Chuzhou, Anhui Province

 

Yaya

1st year in the world

In sleep

A moment of complacence

Two months later ...

Gnawing his paw

Three months later ...

The 103rd day

Four months later ...

In “tuxedo”

Five months later ...

In Ding Lantian's arms

Shrieking in excitement  (Avi file encoded in DivX 6.11; 5 Mb).

Six months later ...

Half a year old: Hearty laugh

Seven months later ...

On the road

Eight months later ...

At the Librairie Avant Garde

Nine months later ...

With Grandaunt

Crawling across the balcony

Ten months later ...

The first four baby teeth that erupted

Eleven months later ...

The first snowy winter

I can stand now ...” “- I don't want to be sedentary.”

First attempt at walking  (Avi file encoded in DivX 6.11; 4 Mb).

 

1 year later ...

1st birthday: Zhuazhou (a Chinese custom of telling a child's fortune by placing various emblematic articles before him and letting him choose his favorite one on his first birthday)  1  2  3  4  5  6  7

1st birthday: 2nd meeting with Youyou

1st birthday: Birthday feast

Clear Bright Day tomb visiting: Gazing at Granddad
Children's Amusement Park: Panicking

Outside Puji Temple (普济寺), Putuo, Zhejiang, China

Self-feeding

With Naonao1

With Uncle Jian

The sound of mouth organ  (Avi file encoded in DivX 6.11; 7.3 Mb).

 

2 years later ...

Birthday gift

Nanjing University, Pukou Campus: In the court with a statue of Confucius:  1  2

“We'll have rice and dishes after booboo is eaten.”  (Avi file encoded in DivX 6.11; 490kbps; 3 Mb).

Gleefully walking on the bench in a pavilion in the court of Baiye Guan (Rural Trades Museum) in Jiangxin Zhou (“Mid-river Islet”), Nanjing  (Avi file encoded in Mp4; 2000 kbps; 720x480 p, 30 fps; 18.6 Mb).

In the oceanarium  (Avi file encoded in DivX 6.11; 490kbps; 8.84 Mb).

On the mini-train in “Ah-Gu”

Morning exercise in the kindergarten  (DivX file encoded in DivX 6.11; 1500 kbps; 9.4 Mb).

 

3 years later ...

On the way to kindergarten

Cool in sun glasses

A plush-crested duckling

A discussion with Granny

Windup performance of the dancing class (Mov; 26 Mb).

 

4 years later ...

Flying a kite

Kindergarten sports meet: Morning exercise

“The Angry Bird”

Tengfeiyuan's 1st open house  {Mp4; 92Mb}.

Tengfeiyuan's 2nd open house  (Before moving to NU Kindergarten. Mp4; 28.5Mb).

 

5 years later ...

In the courtyard of the Paleontological Museum of the Academia Sinica

Wearing spectacles chosen by himself

Three kids

By the legendary footprint of “Ma Niangniang” (“马娘娘”, 1332-1382), empress consort of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty

“I'm five”

1st day in the top class in kindergarten

Last session of the kids swimming training class  (Avi file encoded in mp4; 1000kbps; 14.7 Mb).

Playing on the piano “On the way to school”, “Through the woods”, etc. (3 months after starting the piano course)  (Avi file encoded in mp4; 1000kbps; 14.5 Mb).

Monday morning's flag-raising ceremony

Kindergarten open house:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7

A weekly menu of the kindergarten

Approaching school age

 

6 years later ...

In the willow wood by the Yangtze River

A picture Yaya requested to be taken with a statuette featuring a laborer resting after a day's work to excavate the Yanzhi Riveret (胭脂河, a water course created in the Ming dynasty [1368-1644] to connect the Shijiu Lake [石臼湖] in Lishui County [溧水县] to the Qinhuai River [秦淮河] in Nanjing)

A picture Yaya requested to be taken with the water buffalo statue (by Xiong Binming) after attending Prof. Yu Yizhong's funeral

Before lunch at Xinsifang (新四方)

Graduating from kindergarten:  1  2  3

The graduation ceremony of the senior classes of the kindergarten  (Mp4; 1000kbps, 29.97fps, 720x480p; 98 Mb).

Yaya's first few football training sessions  (Wmv; 2000kbps, 29.97fps, Hd960x720; 27 Mb).

The first day at school:  1  2  3

The first school day:  1  2

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7 years later ...

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The 2nd Youth Olympic Games - Football semi-finals

At the Cemetery of Anti-Japanese Aviator Martyrs

Three good buddies on a trail by the Tianle Lake (天乐湖)

Fathers Christmas giving away gifts on the morning of the Xmas of 2014

At the South Putuo Temple (南普陀寺), Xiamen, Fujian province

 

8 years later ...

Birthday

In the courtyard of 134 Hankou Xilu, Nanjing

Yaya and Yaya (1st visit to Caishiji [采石矶, The Caishi Precipice] in Ma'anshan, with the Big Yellow Duck in the backdrop)

Taking the examination for promotion to the 9th geup rank in junior Taekwondo

Ahgu: The mini-train is running again

 

9 years later ...

 

10 years later ...

 

11 years later ...

 

12 years later ...

 

13 years later ...

 

14 years later ...

 

 

Themes:

A street kid:  1  2

 

Alert / Concentrated:  1  2  3  4  5

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By the balustrade at Nantianmen (南天门), Mount Taishan

Engrossed in a toy

A young pharmacist

 

Art and artisanship

Singing “How beautiful is the national flag”  (Wav; 274 Kb).

Singing “Little Star”, “A Pug”, and “I found a coin at the roadside”  (Wav; 620 Kb).

Painting up a plaster statuette of “Xiyang [喜羊()]” the Lamb

Visiting an oil painting show featuring local scenes of Songyang, Zhejiang Province

'We Three' (Yaya's 1st drawing of his family)

Groping for the right keys to play ''A Merry Yellow Duckling''

A miniature Victorian house Yaya assembled

 

Exercises

Running joyfully out of Puji Hospital, where a surgeon just repositioned the subluxated capitulum radi of his left arm  1  2

In Baiye Guan (Rural Trades Museum) in Jiangxin Zhou (“Mid-river Islet”), an islet in the middle of the Yangtze River at Nanjing, China: 1 (On a swing)  2 (Walking on the bench in a pavilion)

On the beach:  1  2   3

Dance show in the kindergarten

Running

The first bike

The last session of the kids swimming training class:  1  2

A first-time horse-rider

Running up

Snowball fight in the first heavy snow of the year:  1  2  3

Football training sessions:  1  2  3

 

In the warm sunshine:  1  2  3  4

 

In good humor

After bath

Posing as a duckling, with bruises on his nose and cheek from a fall on the ground

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A sly smile:  1  2

A crown of laurels

Waving a hand airily

Offering to pose for Sony DSC-RX100:  1  2

Newly acquired twigs

After a dinner with Granny

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The joy and sorrow of discovery

A homeless puppy

First sight of the sea

The sea again:  1  2

 

The magic and wonders of creation

A house built for his camel: 1  2

 

Observation of nature

A dialog with two mynas  (Wav; 499 Kb).

Looking at peach blossoms in Fan Hongsheng's arms

Looking for “booboo” (one of the first few living things that caught his attention)

Something fallen from the tree

Contours of the land

A tall tree

Budgerigars

A deer

Chickens

In a vineyard in Jiangxin Zhou (“Mid-river Islet”), an islet in the middle of the Yangtze River at Nanjing, China

A solitary goose across the pond

A young backpacker climbing up the Yueguan (Lunar-Viewing) Peak, Mount Taishan

Examining a large block of rock with his magnifying glass at Nantianmen (南天门), Mount Taishan

A giant wicker ant

 

Observation of people

The twins and their mom:  1  2  3

A new kid

 

Old houses

The former residence of Gan Xi (甘熙, a scholar in the late Qing period who passed the highest imperial examination ― dianshi [presided over by the emperor himself]) in Nanjing, China:  1. In a “Grand Preceptor's Chair”  2. With the statues of two urchins competing against each other with grass stems

Baicao Yuan (百草园), a big garden in the childhood home of Lu Xun (1881-1936) in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China

Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum in Nanjing, China

Wuling School (武岭学校), created by Madam Soong May-ling (1898-2003) at Xikou, Fenghua, Zhejiang, China

The villa of Madame Soong May-ling (1898-2003) in Nanjing, China: Pushing open a window

The former residence of John Rabe in Nanjing, China (1882-1950, Siemens businessman; head of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone [1937-1938], a designated area in Nanjing which protected Chinese civilians during the Nanking Massacre which lasted for six weeks after December 13, 1937 when Japanese Army entered the walled city of Nanking; author of The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe. [Random House, 1998].)  1  2  3  4 

A young helping hand in a bean curd workshop, Baiye Guan (Rural Trades Museum) in Jiangxin Zhou (“Mid-river Islet”), an islet in the middle of the Yangtze River at Nanjing, China

Shaoshan, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, the birthplace of Mao Zedong (1893-1976), founder of the People's Republic of China: In silent tribute to the late Chairman in front of his statue

Before the moving of the SFS to the Xianlin Campus:  1  2  3

In front of the former residence of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

 

Passion for machinery

vehicles:  1  2  3

A Stevenson screen

 

Passport photos

1 year 9 months

 

Schoolwork

The 1st written composition (scrawled in pinyin by himself) and the 2nd poem (transcribed by Dad, with the first two lines borrowed from a nursery rhyme)

Granny teaching Yaya how to write Chinese characters

 

Sleeping time:  1  2  3

 

Toddling along:  1  2

 

With Maomao:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7

 

Yunnan Province, China  (August, 2007)

Kunming (昆明)

Stone Forest: Workings of Nature
Stone Forest: Ahshima

 

Shangri-La (香格里拉)

A street in the old town

Pota Tso National Park: Shudu Lake

 

River Jinsha (金沙江)

Hutiao Xia (Tiger Jumping Gorge, a gorge of River Jinsha)

 

Yulong Snow Mountains (玉龙雪山)

Blue flowers

At an altitude of 4506 meters

 

Lijiang (丽江)

Grass on the roof top of an old house

Guangbi Lane  1  2  3

Guangbi Lane: A Naxi inn

A kid and a puppy at the door of a Naxi inn

“Be considerate and stay quiet” (sign on the door of a Naxi inn)

Sifang Jie (Square Market): Naxi chain dance

Tavern St: Le Petit Paris

Three old Naxi ladies

 

Dali (大理)

Congsheng Temple: The Triple Pagodas in the misty rain

Butterfly Spring

 

Zhejiang Province, China

Xikou (溪口)

Wuling School (武岭学校), created by Madam Soong May-ling (1898-2003) at Xikou, Fenghua, Zhejiang, China:  1  2

 

Xitang (西塘)

A stone bridge by a teahouse

 

Wuzhen (乌镇)

Old houses at the foot of a stone bridge

A local pharmacy where traditional Chinese medicinal drugs were dispensed

 

Legacy Home Page Photos

Alma Mater

Tour Eiffel

Flowers in the Palais du Luxemboug, Paris

Reeds at sunset

Lake in winter

“Booboo”, one of the first “named entities” of Infant Yaya

Commencement day

 

Legacy Photos of Nanjing, England, and the United States


Skyscrapers and sculpture (NYC)


Student residence halls in Penn State University


A house in Carmel, California

Thanksgiving Day


New leaves


Swirling sky


Pipa Lake (Nanjing, China)


Rhus Trail (Monterey, California)


Country road (Huangji, Jiangsu, China)


Victoria Avenue (Cambridge, UK)


Diving seagull


On the grass


Diudiu: dignified


A swan in the Central Park, NYC


Bother and sister


Oliver


Clare


Anya


Kelly Egan


Tomoyo


Spring (Monterey, California)


Childhood home


In Magdalen College, Oxford University


Haystacks in summer (Huangji, Jiangsu, China)


  A backlit tree (Nanjing, China)


Bristlegrass (Nanjing, China)


By the lake (Nanjing, China)


River Cam, UK


Ely, UK


Summer clouds (Monterey, California)


Hawaii


Moon over autumn woods (Nanjing, China)


Old trees in Carmel, California


A tree singing in the wind (Valparaiso, Indiana)


A cypress in the Monterey Bay, California


Manhattan, NYC


Lady Liberty, NYC


To Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, California


A lake by Hampton Inn, Valparaiso University, Indiana


Surfboarders

 

 

2   Sketches and Oils by Ke Ping


A Russian boy


Autumn grass


Fall


February


High noon


Poplars


The mountain


A mill


Wind from out of the skies

Eternity


Central Hebei Plain


Willows by the Yangtze River

 

 


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