Shenzhen, a Hong Kong wannabee

20 years ago Shenzhen was a fishing village of 10,000 people. Now, this city on the border with Hong Kong, boasts over 7,000,000 and is the site of many of the exported products that come to North America. They are developing large tracts of glass clad office buildings, in the Hong Kong style.

The end is nigh!

December 5th 2007
December 5, 2007 blog Well, we have put our foot into the fifth month of our visit and we have begun to turn our attention to what happens once we return to the US. As most of you know, we have left or jobs and rented our house until August, so it looks to be a peripatetic life for the next seven months or so. We took a vocational/recreational/necessity trip to Hong Kong over the weekend; vocat ... 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

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