{"id":98,"date":"2013-06-28T15:33:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/?p=98"},"modified":"2024-01-10T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:22:04","slug":"jade-market-and-the-art-of-the-haggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/2013\/06\/28\/jade-market-and-the-art-of-the-haggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jade Market and the Art of the Haggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Saravara took students to the Jade market and Temple Street area.\u00a0 Here one can look through thousands of jade items and haggle for the &#8220;right&#8221; price.\u00a0 The Chinese character for jade is a combination of the words for beauty and\u00a0 purity.\u00a0 Jade has been long associated with long life and good health in Chinese\u00a0 culture, making it a prized material for good-luck charms.<\/p>\n<p>In Hong Kong, the jade business is most active at the Jade Market in Kowloon.\u00a0 While there\u2019s been a lot of redevelopment in the area in recent years, some\u00a0 vestiges of its past have been saved, such as the colonial-era police station!\u00a0\u00a0The most common items to be poked through are\u00a0 jade accessories, including rings, bangles, pendants and earrings, but expect to\u00a0 come across some more unusual finds as well.<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverhongkong.com\/eng\/shop\/where-to-shop\/street-markets-and-shopping-streets\/jade-market-and-jade-street.jsp#ixzz2aT6YOkI6\">http:\/\/www.discoverhongkong.com\/<\/a>\u00a0for more information on the Jade market area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01672-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66\" alt=\"DSC01672 - Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01672-Copy-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01672-Copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01672-Copy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01672-Copy-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01674-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99\" alt=\"DSC01674 - Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01674-Copy-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01674-Copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01674-Copy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/DSC01674-Copy-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Saravara took students to the Jade market and Temple Street area.\u00a0 Here one can look through thousands of jade items and haggle for the &#8220;right&#8221; price.\u00a0 The Chinese character for jade is a combination of the words for beauty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/2013\/06\/28\/jade-market-and-the-art-of-the-haggle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}