Blue Lake Restaurant

Chinese Hospitality

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June 25th 2008
We are on a lake just north of the Forbidden City. It is midnight. We are on a small boat drinking beer with Chinese businessmen, neither of whom we knew 12 short hours ago... Sometimes one gets themselves into situations in which they need to work backwards...figure out precisely how they ended up there... We are six. Natalie, myself, Mason, Jay, their girlfriends Bessie and Susie (names an ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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