#36 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Taizhou is changing quickly)
June 24th 2006 For the first time I ventured out on public transportation, rather than on foot. Bus #9 makes a stop at the corner of our street, and my Australian collegue Sue and Vivian, one of the English teachers at the college assigned to assist us, and I took a lengthy ride into the city to check out one of the major shopping centers on the other side of Taizhou. It was a good day to buy a set of umbrell
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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 
