We woke up in Beijing and had a very interesting morning. We
rented a conference room in our hotel and invited one of the screenwriters that
worked with Jet Li, a famous Chinese film director, to come talk to us. Before
he arrived, we watched one of his two most famous movies – Fearless, the other
well-known film being Hero. Fearless is a Chinese martial arts movie set
towards the later part of the Qing dynasty – the early 1900s. We got a chance
to ask him questions about the movie and also about the Chinese film industry
as well. Once we exhausted our ability to come up with interesting questions to
ask him, we gave him a chance to ask about America, and he was especially
interested in asking about the election.
Out method of transportation to get from Beijing to Shanghai
was awesome. We got to take the Chinese 动车 (dong che), which is the bullet train. Not
only was the train really new and clean, it was the fastest one there is in
China. What would normally be about a eight or ten hour drive in the car, we
managed to do in less than five hours by train. At around eight in the evening
we arrived at the Shanghai Hongqiao train station, which was beautiful. It was
so big it felt like an airport terminal. We met up with our tour guide, Iris,
and got on our bus and went to our hotel. None of us would have guessed the
quality of the hotel we would be staying at before we arrived. We pulled up to
the Regal International East Asia Hotel and realized that it was a 5-star hotel
with just about every amenity you could think of. They have a pool, spa, both
indoor and outdoor tennis courts, squash courts, a workout room, and a
breakfast buffet with almost everything you could want. The rooms were very
nice, with a box next to the bed that controlled everything in the room, and
beds that were western-soft.
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