Meiyi Hotel Guangzhou

The homelessness situation in Guangzhou is not much different than it is in many large cities of the Western world (excluding Santa Monica where of course the situation is magnified several times over!)... From time to time, you will occasionally come across homeless people trying to eke out an existence on the dingy stony sidewalks... Most of them are not there by choice although an old Chinese proverb says that after being a beggar for three days, you wouldn't want to trade places with an emperor... And Mao Zedong himself once voluntarily lived as a beggar for a period of time, as a kind of experiment... It would be fascinating to learn the whole truth about the life stories of these often troubled travelers, who are caught in the cold winds of a witless world...