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Chongqing - China is Hard

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August 7th 2009
If there has ever been a city on this trip that I can feel pretty certain I never will live in, or want to live in, Chongqing is it. We have been to seven Asian countries on this trip, plus Hong Kong and Macau. That is a list of many different languages, cultures, religions, and foods. One of the questions we get asked most frequently by people is how do you communicate if you don’t speak the ... 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