Visitors walk across a causeway at the West Lake in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on April 4. Domestic tourists were out in force at some of China’s most popular tourist sites on a holiday weekend as the country continues to report few new cases of coronavirus within its borders. Photo: AP
Visitors walk across a causeway at the West Lake in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on April 4. Domestic tourists were out in force at some of China’s most popular tourist sites on a holiday weekend as the country continues to report few new cases of coronavirus within its borders. Photo: AP
Siddharth Chatterjee
Opinion

Opinion

Siddharth Chatterjee

Let’s give thanks for what the long winter of the pandemic brought out in us

  • In Chinese art, pine, bamboo and plum blossom symbolise fortitude, modesty and endurance – traits that help us through dark days. These traits have helped us through the pandemic as we emerge into a hopeful spring

Visitors walk across a causeway at the West Lake in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on April 4. Domestic tourists were out in force at some of China’s most popular tourist sites on a holiday weekend as the country continues to report few new cases of coronavirus within its borders. Photo: AP
Visitors walk across a causeway at the West Lake in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on April 4. Domestic tourists were out in force at some of China’s most popular tourist sites on a holiday weekend as the country continues to report few new cases of coronavirus within its borders. Photo: AP
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