Looking China 2015 Qingdao Trip – Summary by Jacopo Wassermann

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As I stayed in Qingdao during the Looking China program, people kept asking me what was my impression of China before I travelled there, and how had it changed after I did that. I must confess I often felt embarrassed with this question. What does one know about a place without having studied it properly, or having ever been there? China had never been (and admittedly still isn’t) an object of serious study for me. And even now that I have been there, it is very hard to find the right words to express what I feel. By doing that, I feel that I may be somehow inconvenient, and that I will bite more than I can chew. That being said, I can’t think of any other way to write this summary. That’s why, nonetheless, I will try.