Hiebeler's Pictures in China (1998)

These pictures were taken in Hangzhou on my trip during early summer 1998.

Other pictures you can see:

• Recent pictures from Maine, taken after I moved to Maine in August 2002. Also, I had lost about 60 pounds during the previous 8 months, so I look much better in these. :-)
• Older pictures, mostly from Ithaca NY, but a couple from Harvard and New Mexico.
• Photos from another trip to Hangzhou in summer of 2002.
• Pictures of the Chinese children's magazines containing a couple of stories I wrote: "The Little Monkey's Adventure", and "Why Did the Deer Stomp His Foot?".

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While I was visiting Zhejiang Agricultural University in Hangzhou during May 1998, I also visited the campus kindergarten. The photo on the left ended up being published on front page of the May 31, 1998 edition of the 钱江晚报 (Qian2 Jiang1 Wan3 Bao4) newspaper, and in the eastern edition (June 11) and overseas edition (June 15) of 人民日报 (Ren2 Min2 Ri4 Bao4, People's Daily). You can see pictures of the newspapers here. Photo by MA Yantao Photo by MA Yantao

While visiting the kindergarten, I met two sweet young twin sisters. (Photo by SUI Lili)	After my picture was published in the newspaper, the Hangzhou television station got interested, so they sent a couple of people to interview me (at the kindergarten again). (Photo by SUI Lili)
Here I am in Hangzhou with my friend LI Min (on the left), along with three waitresses who were very kind to me in 1997 and 1998 (XU Xia Fang on the right even loaned me her bicycle for a week). I found that people in China were often very kind to me, especially when I was kind and respectful to them.	SUI Lili and I at Xi Hu ("West Lake") in Hangzhou. It seems she is always smiling.
I am with my good friends LI Min and SUI Lili inside the auditorium of the Zhejiang Agricultural University Kindergarten. SUI Lili is often quite mischievous, maybe you can see it in her smile.	This is me on top of Nan Gao Feng ("Southern High Peak") on the southwest edge of Hangzhou. There were many tea plants growing on the hills there, and we saw a couple of farmers picking the tea leaves when we were climbing the hill.