"China Today 1990" - part 8 "Hangzhou".

Part 8 of "China Today 1990" centres on the beautiful Yangtze delta city of Hangzhou with it's world-famous West Lake and it's superb gardens. Includes a fascinating overnight train ride to get there and a great meeting with some gregarious Chinese travellers enroute. A boat ride on West Lake then reveals it's amazing beauty and it's secrets and the inspiring history of delightful Hangzhou, then a visit to a tea plantation and to superb Chinese opera in the park and to a wonderful mechanised silk weaving and printing factory, before we embark on a truly delightful train ride to astonishing Shanghai, which we see in detail in the next segment of this nine part journey through a rapidly emerging China in 1990. Magnificent viewing of a very complex, exciting and most interesting lifestyle along the Yanggtze delta!! Enjoy memorable images of a fast changing China!