One of the many sites for the Qidan tribesmen’s summer camps was a place north of today’s Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province (northwest from Beijing). It is now known as Angulinao Lake area and is geared for tourists with yurts and horses. To check out this ancient camping ground, I encouraged my friends Sun Xiaoyan and […]

For five days in May, 2012, Mrs. Setsuko Ikeuchi, Li Xueqing and I searched out sites in Liaoning Province where Ikeuchi-san’s father, Mr. Takuichi Takeshima, a scholar of Liao architecture had photographed places in the 1930s. We took many of his black and white photos of 1932, 1933 and 1935 and compared them with what […]