The China Dreamblogue is a project undertaken by two American teachers to provide educational opportunities for people in China. We are doing this because we want to help people to achieve the dreams that they haven’t been able to. Hence our name is The China Dreamblogue.

中国载梦博客一个由两位美国教师为了给中国穷人提供教育机会的计划。我们这样做是为了帮助人们实现他们如今还没有实现的愿望。因此我们的名字叫中国载梦博客.

Our project has 4 major parts:
我们的计划由个主要部分组成：

1. Traveling: First, Yanzhi Liu and I will be traveling to the 22 provinces of mainland China over the course of the next 12-16 months. We will visit and interview at least one person from every ethnic group and from every province to find out about their lifestyle, their beliefs, and their hopes and ambitions for themselves and others. We will post these interviews on the Dreamblogue for you to read.
2. Free Scholarships: Yanzhi and I are giving away scholarships that will allow students to study abroad in the UK and the US.
3. China information: Yanzhi and I will be posting regular information about China on this blog. Yanzhi and I have found that Westerners’ understanding of China is often darkened by news reports that focus on the negative parts of China. We will be putting up information here on the blog that seeks to find the interesting, curious, good parts of Chinese culture and highlight them here.
4. Money for Charity: Yanzhi and I are raising money for two charities, Thomas Stader’s Library Project and Terry Dougherty’s Reading Tub. We will be raising money by selling advertising on the Blog of Dreams and giving away the advertising money to Thomas and Terry directly through a Feedburner account. Yanzhi and I will never touch the money.

1. 行程:在接下来的12-16个月中刘彦志和我将会游历中国大陆个省份。在去到每一个民族的地区的时候我们将会最少采访一个该民族的人，了解他们的生活方式、信仰、愿望、理想等等。我们将会将这些采访刊登在“载梦博客”上供大家阅读参考。
2. 免费奖学金：彦志和我将会发放奖学金供同学们去英国和美国留学。
3. 中国信息：彦志和我将会定期发布关于中国的信息在这个网站上。我们发现西方人对中国的理解经常遭到新闻报纸的误导，因为它们专注于报导中国消极的方面的信息。我们将会把中国有趣的、奇特的事物或事件或中国文化积极的方面和它们最精彩的方面的信息放上这个博客。
4. 慈善基金：我们将为两个慈善机构筹集基金：Thomas Stader的图书馆计划和Terry Dougherty的读书俱乐部。我们将把载梦博客的广告收入通过账户直接捐给Thomas和Terry.

How you can help (and don’t worry, none of these cost you a dime):
你们怎样帮助我们呢？（放心，不需花费你们分钱）

1. Blog your dreams. It’s simple. Go the form the the bottom of this page (and at the end of most posts, and fill out your dream. You can send your dream as a photo, video, text, or any other medium you can imagine. It can be a big dream or a small one. We are currently looking for sponsors who will be able to help fund your dream.
2. Visit the site often. The more people visit, the more hits and pageviews the site gets, and the more money we can charge advertisers. More money will go to charity. We’ll be sure to have fresh content for you to come back to every day.
3. Send us your photos. Over the course of the Dreamblogue journey, we’ll be sponsoring a photo contest for both professionals and amateurs, with prizes for the photos who get the most votes.
4. Favorite us on Technorati. There is a little green button you can click on that says, “fave this blog technorati.” We are trying to generate publicity for our project by becoming the most favorited blog in the world on Technorati. Click on the button, register as a member (don’t worry, it’s free and spam-free), and click on the button one more time on our site to move us one step closer to our goal.

1. 将你们梦醒写在我们的博客上。非常简单，只要写在博客下方的方框里就行了（在每篇文章的尾部写上你们的梦想。你们可以把你们的图片、视频或其他媒体发送给我们。它可以是大的梦想或小的梦想。我们会寻找赞助商来帮助你们实现你们的梦想）
2. 经常登陆这个网站。越多人登陆这个网站，我们网站就会有更多的点击率和读者，然后我们就可以向登广告的人索取更多的广告费，那么我们就有更多的钱资助慈善机构。为了使大家每天都来浏览我们的网站，我们保证每天都有新鲜的内容提供给大家。
3. 把你们的照片发给我们。在这个“载梦博客”的旅途上，我们将举行专业级和业余级的摄影大赛，得到最高票数的相片将会得到丰富的奖品。
4. 在Technorati 上投我们一票。点击那个写着“fabe this blog technorati.”的绿色按钮。我们正在尝试通过使我们的网站在Technorati 上全球出名进而推广我们的这个计划。点击这个按钮，注册一个账户（别担心，它是免费的）然后在Technorati里点击我的网站，使我们更快地接近我们的目标。

Blog your Dream/把博客写在博客上:

The Chinese province of Guangdong is located in the southernmost part of the country. With its location on the South China Sea(南中國海), it is a natural entry point to South China. It is bordered by Jiangxi (江西) and Hunan (湖南) provinces to the north, Fujian (福建) province to the east, and Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region (广西壮族自治区) to the west. Guangdong province also claims 651 islands, many of which are located in the Pearl River Delta (珠江三角洲). Many of the rivers in the area feed into this delta and flow out into the South China Sea.

The provincial capital, Guangzhou (广州), was known in the West as Canton. The word “guang” (广) means “expanse,” and “Guangdong” refers to “expanse east.” Guangond, together with Guangxi, are known as the “dual guangs” (两广). While Guangdong province got its name during the Ming Dynasty (明朝), the area had been a coastal trade area long before then. When the West began trading with China (via Portugese, Dutch, and British traders), Guangzhou and Guangdong province was a center of trade and the comprador (买办) system. The Opium Wars, begun as a result of the opium trade, flourished at Guangzhou and resulted in the loss of Hong Kong to British control. Guangzhou today retains its status as an important center for China’s international business and trade, and many of its famous businesses and areas, like the White Swan Hotel (白天鹅宾馆) and Shamian Island (沙面岛), highlight this internationalism.

Many Chinese immigrants who came to the United States and Canada in the 1800s left China from Guangdong province. While the majority of people who live in Guangdong are ethnically Han (汉), the largest single ethnic group worldwide, Guangdong does have a diverse multi-cultural makeup, with people from forty-two different ethnic groups all living in the province. Many Chinese dialects are spoken, though most people speak Mandarin or Cantonese.

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Guangdong features a subtropical climate of high humidity and hot weather in the summer, so it is best to visit during the spring and fall months. Due to its geography and weather, Guangdong produces most of the area’s rice, tea and tropical crops. Less than a quarter of all the land in Guangdong is used to produce food, so the areas that are set aside for agricultural purposes are farmed intensively.

Light industry has brought an economic boom to Guangdong that has given the province the highest GDP of any province (over 12% of China’s total GDP, and reported by some sources as high as 33% percent of China’s GDP). Guangdong is also responsible for a total third of all the imports and exports occurring in China. Food processing, including sugar refining, as well as textile manufacturing and weaving, are all major industries here. Heavy industrial pursuits include shipbuilding and repair and machine manufacturing, among others.

Guangdong is famous for its Cantonese cuisine, and many of the foods that Americans and Canadians have come to think of as “Chinese food”—dim sum, fried rice, lo mein noodles, chop suey, bok choi, and wontons, for example—are based on foods and dishes that originated in Guangdong. While Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is quoted as saying, “If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it,” Guangdong food (广东菜) is truly one of the most enjoyable parts of south China. Because Guangzhou was a major trading port, international visitors through the years have introduced a wide variety of foods to the city, adding to the diversity within the cuisine. The freshest ingredients, mildly spiced, are favored, and the flavors are brought to their greatest impact with steaming, stir- and deep frying. Seafood is also often featured.

Visitors to Guangdong province can enjoy the scenic beauty of the Danxia(丹霞山), Luofu(羅浮山), and Dinghu(鼎湖山) mountains. Traveling to Guangzhou allows for scenic visits to Yuexiu Park (越秀公园), as well as the ancient Buddhist Temple of the Six Banyan Trees (刘榕寺). Many other beautiful temples are in Guangdong, including the Nanhua Temple (南华寺) located in Shaoguan(韶关). And for history and culture, the Guangdong Provincial Museum in Guangzhou offers examples of Chaozhou(潮州) wood carving, ceramic figures, old Chinese pottery and traditional Chinese calligraphy posters. A trip here means you can enjoy the best of Guangdong culture, ancient and modern.

Thanks, everyone. We’ve gotten dreams sent in from all around the world. We hope these dreams inspire you as much as they inspire us.

tdgardens’s dream:
That every child have a book to hug, hold, and carry them to a dream all their own.

hailvict’s dream:
To become someone who makes a difference every day of their life.

mmhalim’s dream:
travell to china i cannot imagine what is the great system that can organize all this people and in the same time they are be one of the great country in the world

Taitai’s Dream:
My main dream right now is that the lumps found in my mother-in-law’s lung are benign. That would be lovely, thank you.

kevin’s dream:
I hope the project of “Blog of dreams” will be successful.

Roxi Copland’s Dream:
touring worldwide as a vocalist and pianist

Dream Updates:

We have posted stories before about Ms. Yue, who needs a life-saving drug called Herceptin that costs approximately 45,000 USD a year (approximately thirty-seven years’ worth of wages for as a bookkeeper in China). However, she’s in luck. A group of dreambloggers has pledged to bring a year’s worth of the drug for her.

Ms. Yue says thank you.

Blog your dream:

Remember Coffee, one of the newest members of the League of Extraordinary Chinese women? Well, Through the help and work of friends and supporters Coffee will not have to leave her dreams at the door

Because she lost a leg and now wears a prosthesis, Coffee will face enormous difficulties in China. In addition to the stigma she will face in trying to get a job or make professional and personal connections, she must contend with the reality of daily life in China. There is no requirement to make areas handicapped accessible, so stairs, uneven terrain, long hikes between locations, and major street construction projects–all difficult territory for her–are common and routine barriers to success. Her dormitory and many of the other buildings at her university rarely have functioning elevators or navigable entrances to class.

This post isn’t about pitying Coffee, but about showing her bravery. Coffee’s strength and disposition–her refusal to pity herself, and her willingness to travel through the difficulties of her life to continue to achieve–is worthy of respect and the League of Extraordinary Chinese Women. when Yanzhi visited her in the hospital shortly after chemotherapy a scarfed Coffee was covered in books on her hospital bed. she was determined not to fall behind her peers.

Through a partnership and sponsorship from someone in her university (the person chooses to remain anonymous), Coffee will receive a UN translator training program for French that is worth more than $20,000 USD. Her hope is that this training will help her find a job and earn money to help her purchase a new, higher-quality artificial leg and pay for further medical treatments. While this may not cure Coffee, further education is an essential part of achieving her dream to be a positive force in the world and do something meaningful with her life.

We will be posting more in a few dreams…Keep your eyes open…

Here is the place to share your dream or write one for someone else. It will be emailed to Dawei and Yanzhi who will publish as many as possible in the weeks to come. You can also use this form to tell us of a person, cause or project that we should feature on the Dreamblogue.

Dreamblogue readers and corporate sponsors are already helping fulfill some of the dreams posted here. For how you can help us visit our help page and continue to follow our adventures in China. All ad revenue will from this site benefits Chinese and American individuals with dreams deferred by health, or social circumstances.

Thanks….

When we dream alone it remains only a dream. When we dream together, it is not just a dream, it is the beginning of reality.

–Dom Helder Camara