Comments on: Taihe; Rural Anhui in all its Glory and Grit

By: Mark Lee

Mark Lee — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:02:03 +0000

Dear Lisa Marie

I think your daughter maybe born in Taihe(泰和） County Jangxi Province. The city is located between Ji’an and Ganzhou in Jangxi province.

The link is some pictures of the building in Taihe(泰和）SWI.

http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=&tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%CC%A9%BA%CD%B8%A3%C0%FB%D4%BA&in=25854&cl=2&lm=-1&pn=0&rn=1&di=49913123400&ln=406&fr=&fmq=&ic=&s=&se=&sme=0&tab=&width=&height=&face=&is=&istype=#pn0&-1&di49913123400&objURLhttp%3A%2F%2Fblog.gmw.cn%2FUploadFiles%2F2011-2%2F81143237463.jpg&fromURLhttp%3A%2F%2Fblog.gmw.cn%2Fu%2F78787%2Farchives%2F2011%2F299294.html&W768&H512

By: Mark Lee

Mark Lee — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:41:28 +0000

Dear Ruthie Knights

Your daughter must be born in Taihe Town,Fuling District,Chongqing Sity.(重庆市涪陵区太和乡）,not the Taihe County in Anhui province.

By: Lisa Marie

Lisa Marie — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:32:39 +0000

Thank you for you wonderful pictures and stories. My daughter was also adopted from Taihe SWI. Did you happen to pass the Taihe SWI or have any pictures of the building taken outside the gates? I have been searching for this pictures but I haven’t had any luck. Thanks again for your blog I loved it. It gave me an insight to my daughter’s birthplace. Which I can share with her as she get’s older.

By: Ty Taitch

Ty Taitch — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:54:47 +0000

Wow, Thanks! I was searching google for Taihe because my daughter came from the SWI there. Your experience gives our family a picture and flavor for the area. So grateful! This is so very cool.

By: Marjolein

Marjolein — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:15:02 +0000

Fuling is just northeast of a larger place called Jixi in Anhui province. Just happened to come across it because we wanted to hike the Ancient Hui Hang Caravan Trail which starts in Fuling.

By: keer106

keer106 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:41:18 +0000

给你看，太和县人民医院

By: Benjamin Ross

Benjamin Ross — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:20:44 +0000

@Ruthie

It’s hard to say, but there are probably dozens of towns named Taihe in China. When you transliterate Chinese into English, you end up with a lot of words that would look different in Chinese, but look the same in English, so without Chinese characters and/or nouns, it’s difficult to know for sure. I do know of a town called Fuling, located in Chongqing municipality (most known as being the site of Peter Hessler’s book “River Town), but it is definitely more than 2 hours away from the Taihe I visited, which is located in Anhui province. Like Taihe though, there are likely dozens of cities called Fuling. Any chance you have any more information about the Taihe where your daughter was born? I’d be glad to bust out my Chinese atlas and do a little detective work.

By: Ruthie Knights

Ruthie Knights — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:54:50 +0000

Thank you for your blog and your photos of Taihe. Do you know if there is more than one town named Taihe in China?

My daughter, adopted from China in 2005, was found at the Veterinarian’s Station in Taihe, in 2004. I have not been able to find pictures of Taihe, until I came across your blog today. I was told that Taihe was about two hours from Fuling, where she was taken to an orphanage. Were you about two hours from Fuling?

By: Liu Shuo

Liu Shuo — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:11:09 +0000

A friend of mine sent me this link a few minutes earlier,and it’s really a surprise to find out that you’ve explored my hometown,Fuyang(as you may know,Taihe is part of it).I read you blog with a great pleasure.All those appear above are so familiar to me.And I am so glad that you’ve find what I want to introduce to a new comer most,the food. My hometown is less developed compared with some other parts of China,but life here is not lack of fun.
Hope you discover more in China next time you back here.

By: Judith

Judith — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:01:52 +0000

Thank you so much for the pictures and commentary on Taihe. Our daughter was adopted from the Taihe SWI (we now live in Iowa) and it meant a lot to our family to see where she came from. We are so grateful for your interesting travel blog here.