man fishing..with a bamboo rod naturally!

trip to the Bamboo Sea, Yibin

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May 6th 2007
The 1st of May signalled the beginning of the 'Golden Holiday' here in China, which meant that us teachers get until the 7th of May to relax and forget about our lovely little terrors that we teach every week. Funds not allowing me to take off to Beijing or similar, I decided to stick around in Sichuan Province and take a trip to Yibin, which is a port city approximately half the size of Cheng ... 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