Luoyang

With Rate de Crespigny's Fire of Luoyang: A History of the Later Han Dynasty 23-220 AD, part of that desire has been fulfilled.

On The Go (0207 371 1113, onthegotours.com) 13-day Fine China trip to Beijing, Luoyang, Xi'an, Guilin, Yangshuo and Shanghai in March-October from pounds 1,149, including B&B , some meals, transfers, local tour guides, and events like City Wall bike ride in Xi'an, Chinese acrobatic performance, rickshaw ride in Beijing.

Luoyang's teachers preferred general education (in the academic stream) for all their students.

A deacon of the underground Catholic church in northern China said Bishop Li Hongye of Luoyang was arrested by public security officials April 28 with 14 nuns for whom he was conducting a retreat.

The suspect, Chen Zhengping, was detained Sunday aboard a train at Shangqiu in central Henan Province, west of Nanjing's Jiangsu Province, Hong Kong Cable Television News quoted police at the Luoyang Railway Bureau as saying.

* Germany's MAN is considering setting up a joint venture with Luoyang Yutong Automotive.

Leaving Shanxi behind, we travel across China and back and forth through Chinese history The Yellow River area is known as the `cradle of Chinese civilisation', with cities such as Luoyang and Xian.

Ma Jinyong, director of the Religious Affairs Bureau of Luoyang, welcoming the temple, said China and India shared a long history in Buddhist cultural exchanges and this temple would be an important symbol of enhanced exchanges of Buddhist culture between the two countries.

The pair's collaborative silent film China, September-October 1978, Beijing, Yanan, Xian, Luoyang, consists of fuzzy, gorgeously colorful shots of daily life in the aftermath of Mao's Cultural Revolution, its seemingly anomalous inclusion here providing a vital link to the more overtly political aspect of Sieverding's practice.

Last year we were traveling in China, riding the overnight train from Xi'an to Luoyang. It was crowded and loud.

Zhang served the emperor from Luoyang, the Eastern Han capital, and studied the sky from its Lingtai, or "Spirit Terrace," an elevated open platform with subsidiary chambers and verandas on the terraces below.

The Longmen Grottoes near Luoyang, China are the site of nearly 100,000 individual Buddhist statues produced approximately between 494 and 794 BCE.