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A special dinner

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March 12th 2009
On Monday night the Foreign Affairs office invited me out to dinner. I thought I made it clear to the director that I didn’t eat meat—and I thought it got through to him because he even made the joke about women needing to stay ‘slim and trim’ and abstain from meat. My response: “yeah, um, something like that.” We ate at the hotel on campus (the University has its own hotel for visit ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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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