Hello! Actually I’m from Michigan. But I lived and worked in Chengdu for 2 years. I would be there now were it not for Covid-19. It’s a very cool city particularly for expats. I know the city wasn’t much back when you were there. What do you remember of it?
It was very primitive. The hotel was probably circa 1900 and very rundown. It was a typical impoverished communist city. My hosts took me on some tours to undistinguished and not noteworthy archeological / cultural sites. I arrived about three weeks after Mao died and the city was in mourning. He didn’t have many statues there compared to Beijing, but everything was covered in white paper streamers. It was probably one of the least memorable places I ever visited. Harbin was #2 on the least memorable place lost.