{"id":37786,"date":"2023-03-16T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T22:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/?p=37786"},"modified":"2023-07-23T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T22:01:02","slug":"nzcfs-nz-heroes-in-china-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/nzcfs-nz-heroes-in-china-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2023 &#8211; Travel the NZCFS NZ Heroes in China Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NZCFS New Zealand Heroes in China Tour <\/strong><strong>(Previously named NZCFS Rewi Alley and Kathleen Hall Heritage tour.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now scheduled for October 2023 &#8211; <\/strong><strong>21 days in China <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2021 is the 125<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Kathleen Hall\u2019s birth. 2022 is Rewi Alley\u2019s 125<sup>th<\/sup>. An overview of the itinerary is to travel from Beijing to Shandan, ending in Shanghai. The focus is to visit heritage sites of both <strong><u>Kathleen Hall<\/u><\/strong> and <strong><u>Rewi Alley<\/u><\/strong> and organise some official\/semi-official meetings with partners of their heritage in China. \u00a0The plan includes activity like English corner with students in Gansu, Youxie support for forums on RA and KH, meet Kathleen Hall scholars, all to be confirmed. Along the way there will be a number of historical, cultural and scenic sites of interest. <strong>Underlying all, of course, will be a diverse and authentic food experience of the regions<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>NZCFS is confident that we are able to deliver this tour free of restrictions on both international travel and in-China travel, free of constraints from Covid other than testing requirements. Expressions of interest are free from commitment at this stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THIS IS A UNIQUE TOUR THAT ONLY NZCFS CAN DELIVER. THROUGH THE FOCUS ON REWI ALLEY AND KATHLEEN HALL, IT PROVIDES A PLATFORM FOR A BROAD APPRECIATION OF WHERE CHINA CAME FROM, AND HOW IT GOT TO WHERE IT IS TODAY, WITH CONTACT WITH REAL PEOPLE! A DRAFT ITINERARY WILL BE PROVIDED ASAP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"am_read_more \" style=\"width: auto!important; margin-left: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/tours.nzchinasociety.org.nz\/tours\/nz-heroes-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more on the tours website<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">A draft outline of the itinerary and an indication of the activity is as follows:-<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Beijing:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Highlights of Beijing, may include Great Wall, Tiananmen\/Forbidden City, to be arranged<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Sites less visited \u2013 Zhoukoudian (Peking Man Site); Luguo qiao (Marco Polo Bridge)<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Rewi Alley heritage \u2013 formal meetings\/ informal workshops; Song Qingling former residence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Hebei Province:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Kathleen Hall heritage \u2013 Songjiazhuang village; KH Memorial room, Baoding; Anguo<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Langya Shan (wolf tooth mountain)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Shanxi Province:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Datong \u2013 Kathleen Hall heritage; meet NZCFS\u2019 KH scholar; Yungang grottoes; Hengshan Hanging temple<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Pingyao Ancient Town \/ Zhang Yimou performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Shaanxi Province:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Xi\u2019an \u2013 Terracotta soldiers; Eighth Route Army Museum; City Wall; Moslem Bazaar; meet Kathleen Hall Scholars, Women\u2019s Federation<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Fengxian \u2013 cross the Qingling mountain range that separates north and south of China; Rewi Alley cave house and heritage \u2013 Xi Zhongxun memorial museum<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Baoji \u2013 Restored Cave Factory Museum Complex; Baoji Museum (featuring Bronze Age)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Gansu Province:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Zhangye \u2013 Zhangye Danxia Geological Park; Wetlands Nature Park<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Shandan \u2013 Rewi Alley heritage activities; Shandan Vocational College (previously SBS); RA museum, RA grave; Commemoration activities- seminar, meet the students and teachers<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Big Buddha<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Lanzhou \u2013 Lanzhou City University: Rewi Alley commemoration activities, forum with students and teachers; Bailie Square; Yellow River waterwheel park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Shanghai:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Rewi Alley historic residence 1315 Yu Yuan Ave; meet partners (possible meet NZCFS sponsored Michael King NZ writer in residence?); free time, to be arranged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-6 col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 key_locations\">\n<h3>Key Locations:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"key_loc\">\n<li>Beijing<\/li>\n<li>Hebei Province<\/li>\n<li>Shanxi Province<\/li>\n<li>Shaanxi Province<\/li>\n<li>Gansu Province<\/li>\n<li>Shanghai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"tour_sc_btn tour_pdf_btn\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NZ-Heroes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Itinerary (PDF)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZCFS New Zealand Heroes in China Tour (Previously named NZCFS Rewi Alley and Kathleen Hall Heritage tour.) Now scheduled for October 2023 &#8211; 21 days in China 2021 is the 125th anniversary of Kathleen Hall\u2019s birth. 2022 is Rewi Alley\u2019s 125th. An overview of the itinerary is to travel from Beijing to Shandan, ending in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":37787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,230,229,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37786"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38460,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786\/revisions\/38460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzchinasociety.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}