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Sorry to hear that, when I visited China I made mostly good experiences, but I was mostly in big citys. I also experienced that some Hotels do not allowe foreigners, but I learned that is because each hotel has to pay a extra fee to be allowed to host non chinese citizens, and most of them say that the annualy fee would be bigger than the profit of hosting non chinese citizens. So its nothing personal.

Hi Patrick, great AMA. I hope Im not too late.

Can you tell me about your trip to china? Where did you go, and did you meet a lot of persons who saw a non-chinese person for the first time? I know chinese people are kind and will probably invite you for food and shelter if you are lucky, but how did you communicate with people who only speak chinese. I can Image you can show them the basics if you try, but do you (in general during your travel) get more communication than just "Hello" and "Bye Bye"