Tianjin, China
The bath house where I stayed at.
Roads in Tianjin were harder to navigate because it’s not that straight and a little windy. It doesn’t help that I lost my compass yesterday.
Tianjin Station
Long line to get a ticket in the train station
Not many tickets left
Sometimes it’s easier to buy train ticket for the next day then getting ticket for the next few days because smaller station on the way will give back tickets to the ShiFaZhan (Main departure station of the train) if the tickets are not sold. Plus, people tried to change their trip last minute and there are tickets refund.
View of Tianjin
Big clock
Tianjin has some western influence since it’s an old port city and was always invaded first.
Some erotic sculptures along the river
Big Christmas tree still standing
Fishing on the river
Mahua, Tianjin famous
Shopping Street
Church
There is a subway line connecting from the northwest part of Tianjn to the southeast part of the city. Took the train to NanLou and walked to the Tianjin museum. So far all the provincial museums I visited in China was great. The contents in all the museums I visited were informative, every museum architecture is unique and entrance is free.
Tianjin Museum
Tianjin has some very interesting history. Because Tianjin is a port city, every time during a foreign invasion, Tianjin was targeted first.
Tianjin was the main import point for Opium by the British and was attacked by the British in Opium war I and II. China was forced to sign the Treaty of Tianjin after Opium War II and Tianjin port was opened to foreigners and Opium is legalized.
After traveling around, I noticed that the British Empire directly or indirectly did many harms to countries around world.
Atrocities by foreigners done against the Tianjin people
Tianjin was divided into multiple concessions by the British, Austria-Hungary, US, Japanese…
During the beginning of 20th century, Tianjin has foreigners from multiple countries. The eight nation alliance invaded China in July 1990.
2 Cornell Alumnis
NanKai University. I had a friend who studied mathematics there and mentioned that it’s a good university, so just check it out.
Had dinner with LiuFeng at Tianjin Finance University and took bus 676 to the train station.
Back to the train station
Took the 1471 train at 11.18pm to Harbin.
