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Balancing my chi in Shanghai

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March 15th 2008
As evening falls, the sounds of honking horns signal what must be a rather significant traffic jam and the banging on wall next door leads me to believe that maybe the "Do not disturb sign" is construction-related, and not jet lag-related. I have just returned from a two and a half hour yin yang massage at the hotel's Chi spa. Their brochure again quotes James Hilton's Lost Horizon, saying "Yo ... 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