Moganshan

This past weekend, NYU took a group of 28 students to Moganshan (Mount Mogan), which is a mountain range with bamboo forests on it. Moganshan is about 200km away from Shanghai (4ish hours depending on traffic), and is a popular destination in the summer for city residents because of the cool temperatures compared to the Shanghai's scorchingly hot and humid summers. In 1880, Shanghai's elite decided to purchase the peak of Moganshan for 50 Mexican dollars, but the communist party took over in 1949, and now all the homes at the peak are still leased from the government. All the bamboo on Moganshan is actually harvested, and the family writes their last name on it to show whom the bamboo belongs to.

the town at the base of Moganshan

my friend Jeff

Sword Lake, named for Ganjiang—a talented swordsmen who found Moganshan

sunset from the roof of our lodge

hehe, some of the bamboo looks like Dr. Seuss tress