Streets are spic and span!

Reflections after my first 4 months here

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December 24th 2003
Why did I come to China? That‘s such an easy question for me to answer yet many of my friends wonder why I would want to go to China. They feel that there is poverty everywhere, with much pollution and all streets being crowded with cars, people, and bicycles and garbage anywhere you look. I have found China to be nothing like the country as imagined by my friends. The single most striking ... read more

Asia » China

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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