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December 17, 2006
Meeting Your Imagines!
I don't know how I managed to omit mentioning this story last month, but I'd better get it out of the way before 2006 comes to a close...
You may remember a post this summer featuring a video preview of a CCTV documentary on Korla. Well, it turns out that the documentary was Korla's entry into the CCTV 2006 Top Ten Charming Cities of China (中国十佳魅力城市) competition... and guess what? Korla won! [Insert applause, cat calls, loud whistling, and Arsenio Hall-style hooting here.]
Well, actually there were ten winners announced last month, not just one... but Korla was the sole champion in the "Northwest China" category. Take that all you much crappier cities spread across the vast reaches of Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and Tibet!
This is the perfect moment, then, to reveal a panorama image I shot of Korla's downtown a couple of months ago:
Click on the small image for a much higher resolution version. In this photo you can see (from L to R) the southernmost foothills of the Tian Shan mountains, the Bazhou Prefecture (巴音郭楞蒙古自治州) government headquarters building, People's Park, the Loulan Hotel, and the Kongque River (孔雀河). You can also see that beyond the very clean and tidy city limits lies only the emptiness of the desert. Not a bad place to live, if I say so myself. (Click here for the Internet's largest gallery of photos from Korla, Xinjiang.)
This is Korla's official blurb on the subject, with Chinglish phrasing left intact:
A most attractive city: This is a famous city in Western China, meeting your imagines of western region, such as desert, lakes and grassland as well as enticing golden poplar, but not limited to the imagines, as here the people are modern, the roads are modern, and the cities are more modern. Korla City of Xinjiang, perfect combination of western flavors and contemporary fashions.
Interestingly, that last sentence is written in Chinese as, "西域风情与当代风尚的完美融合, 新疆库尔勒市." Thus, Chinese readers will understand that Korla features "Turkic" or "Central Asian" flavor, while foreigners are misled to believe that the city is full of "Western" flavor, like a delicious hamburger.
Mmmm... juicy, charbroiled, medium-rare hamburgers with grilled onions on top. Beijing T.G.I. Friday's, here I come!
posted December 17, 2006 at 09:45 AM unofficial Xinjiang time | HaoHao This!
Comments
I hate you all! Why won't you comment!?!? Sigh.
Posted by: michael at December 20, 2006 10:36 AM
Beautiful Picture. Does Korla get its water from the river I see in the right, or is it from aquifers?
Norm
Posted by: Norm at December 21, 2006 11:18 PM
Well, I've always heard that Korla's water comes from Bosten Lake. But since the Kongque River also flows from Bosten Lake, I'm not quite sure where the intake point is. That river is the same river, however, that I swim in during summer months.
Posted by: michael at December 22, 2006 08:36 AM
Medium rare burgers? Now that's a person I can truly respect. It's a shame here in the "states" that so few places will serve at those temps. Killer blog - just wanted to say good job & I'll be back to read up.
Posted by: Chinapro at January 4, 2007 03:52 AM
good
Posted by: 主机租用 at March 23, 2007 09:14 AM
Thank you .I can see my homeland first form a English web.
Posted by: fxl at May 13, 2007 11:58 AM
Thank you .I can see my homeland first form a English web.
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