Nanjing

Tissue comes in handy

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March 2nd 2008
I’ve been living in a city called Xuzhou for the last four days, and I will continue to stay here for the next six months. I have an apartment with two other teachers near the heart of the city. The school I work at is only a ten minute walk through street vendors, men playing strange title games and women sweeping the streets with branches. The city is not glamorous or clean in anyway, but what ... 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