The Li River

Crouching Tom, Hidden Snoozy

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May 25th 2006
The standard of hawking up in China is truely world class. Sweet old grannies give you a toothy smile in the street and then turn away to noisily flob onto the pavement. The central government has tried to stamp it out (in Shanghai and Beijing at least) in preparation for the 2008 olympics. Fat chance - these guys are pros - if they can't hawk it, it probably wasn't worth hawking in the first plac ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan

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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