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Posted on: Booking a Plane Ticket
July 29, 2009 at 1:44 AM

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Posted on: China's Most Famous Tourist Destinations
July 14, 2009 at 4:41 PM

Thanks, Pete. Unlike the West, it is quite interesting that almost all place names in China are based on the topography or terrain of that named spot, and that covers airports, street, etc. (unless, of course, names of family or clans) I do not recall any places named after an individual (e.g. there will never be a Mao Zedong Airport).

Posted on: China's Most Famous Tourist Destinations
July 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM

Chinesepod,

Would someone help to clarify? Is the second character in Tibet (zang4 藏) the same character as that to mean - conceal or to hide. If it is, then it is very clever - Xanadu connotation; unless, of course, it is straight translation from Tibetan. Are they pronounce the same?

/rl