The Main Gate to My Campus

Guten Morgen

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October 27th 2008
It’s 7 in the morning right now. I’ve been up for the past hour reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac, trying hard not to disturb my new room mate. But I can’t help it anymore. We arrived in Shanghai yesterday afternoon. The flight was only two hours from Beijing. Now we’re on campus and I’m about to start my first day of school, though I’m not really sure what that will entail. I gues ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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