China's first space program
November 6th 2007 Regrettably the "fast" train from Shanghai to Beijing was a 200km/h crawler, giving me a burst of maglev nostalgia. I did however learn a new word for toilet, as a sign in the smallest room requested people to not put wastepaper in the "closestool".
Beijing is an exhausting city, and I don't mean that in the same positive way I might use that adjective to describe New York. With it covering suc
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