#33 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (How to become a celebrity in Taizhou)
June 17th 2006 Since Taizhou College is located on the outskirts of Taizhou City, my college-apartment is situated in the sub-urbs rather than the urban area. Still, eight floors below me, re-verberate the sounds of a city on the move, every imaginable city-sound being well represented, as in a loud and ill-tuned and ill-managed orchestra, that somehow makes irrational sense.
Anytime I walk the street of th
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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 
