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Suzhou Born and Bred

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February 2nd 2009
On the eve of the New Chinese Year, 2009, year of the Ox, I tentatively approached a man in the old Pingjiang district of Suzhou with a hanzi hand-written request that I had asked my friend to write for me. Every morning for the previous 2 months, I had walked my dog past the little barber’s shop deep in the back lanes of Pingjiang and I’d noticed more and more of the life within the tiny shop ... 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