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May 28, 2009. Living in China. Dragon Boat Festival and Chess.

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May 28th 2009
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. It is a holiday for the government and for schools. In my neighborhood everything was open as usual. I couldn’t tell it was a big national holiday except there were no school kids running around in their uniforms. I could not tell there was a holiday. There was nothing going on in Shenzhen that I found out about. The weather was great again today. It was sunny ... 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