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Chinese have long been crossing the Bohai Sea back and forth between Shandong and Liaoning provinces. In fact the original residents brought by the Russian and Japanese colonialists almost 100 years ago to populate the new port of Dalian mostly came from Shandong, and still today there are ties across the water in terms of dialect, cusine, and of course family. Although a hovercraft also makes the trip in three hours, I've always taken the slow seven hour ferry. Travel offers a sense of a shared experience, pleasure turning to discomfort followed by stoicism and finally relief, that seems to bring out the best in Chinese society.

Dalian to Yantai passenger ferry, April 2008.