CHANGSA, China: I am filing this column from the city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, which is the second leg of my journey to China (with a 16-member Filipino delegation comprised of journalists, academics, NGO representatives and some Filipino student-scholars in China). Our journey began Thursday (Nov.20) last week with an early morning flight from Manila to Xiamen.
In all, this journey will take 9 days to complete. It will take us mildly through the immensity of Chinese geography and history, from southeast China (Fujian province) to central China (Hunan province), to Beijing, the capital of the People’s Republic of China, the country’s political, cultural and educational center, and the headquarters of China’s institutions, including the Communist Party, which is the party of government in this nation of 1.37 billion people.
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