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briansplnr · Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

Hello... everybody
Can anybody give me any information about Nanchang... I have been offered this job... and I need detailds about the city...
Anything about Nanchang would be useful...

Thanks in advance..
Brian

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Why have I in ten years never made a stopover in Nanchang although I traversed the town by train from Shanghai to Hong Kong?

pROBABLY BECAUSE IT IS A HEAP OF BRICKS NOT WORTH WRITING HOME ABOUT...

hOT, VERY HOT IN SUMMER, AND PRETTY COLD IN WINTER.

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peggiescott · Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 162

It has a Wal-Mart that carries tuna fish in spring water (no MSG, thank you). And when you live in a little burg like mine that can be a big deal. Another female FT and I once went to NanChang to stay in a hotel just so we could soak in the tub. It's all in what you compare it to.

It's the nearest "big city" to my town so I go there once a month or so and I like it. But it was also where I happened to be the weekend I fell in love with China, so I'm a little biased. Roger claims it's a pile of bricks but left out crowded and polluted (more so than the aforementioned burg anyway.) But did you also catch it's on the road to both Hong Kong and Shanghai? Only an overnight train ride to either place.

Has MacDonald's and KFC and Pizza Hut also. And a very pretty park by the river.

It can also depend on where your school is. Do you have more specific questions?

Peggie

quanxie · Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 91 Location: The Sticks

I taught in Nanchang for 10 months and at the time thought is was a windy, rainy place (2-3 days non stop at a time), and the sky was always smokey grey... But now that I have lived in two other cities in China I have realized that most cities here are the same in many ways... Grey smoke fulled skys are the standard and as Roger says many brick buildings with unimaginative box shapes with tile faces. I like to call China the land of "box people" many people do not use an address but simply refer to their building number and floor they live on.

But reflecting back on Nanchang as a whole, I think the city itself is very convienent as city go... If you live in the city many things can by purchased without too much effort. They have the second largest open air market in China (Hongcheng da shichang)... Many coffee shops, a very large computer market, lots of fresh vegetables and fruits...

Which school in Nanchang are you thinking about?

Any more questions feel free to PM me...

Good Luck,
Phil