Alex and Joe's tea ceremony

Tea and Mah-Jong, how civilised

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May 6th 2006
As a final-goodbye evening (KTV wasn’t deemed enough - they obviously like us, they said they’ve never been friends with any of the volunteers before, only seeing them as teachers), the med students invited us out for Mah-jong and tea at a very posh tea house outside the city walls. We managed, for the first time in three months, to actually be there on time, despite the crowded buses and ridi ... 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