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Back to work in Qingdao

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April 15th 2007
Well, not really back to work until my first lecture at (OMG!) 8.30 tomorrow morning. The train last night was fine. A comfortable silence among four strangers in a four-person compartment. The rocking of the train put me to sleep at about 21.00. I awoke in the middle of the night and gazed out the window at what countryside I could see. Sometimes freeways bathed in lights, sometimes small vil ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more