Cleaning the grains

Where the streets are lined with golden rice

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October 26th 2009
The Chinese love their rice - and out-eat their nearest competition (India) by nearly 9:1 (thanks Wikipedia). Here in Yangzhou, rice harvesting season has officially arrived and the beautiful golden fields are seeing a flurry of labor and movement. Every rice field in the Jiangsu Province has been harvested and the grains of rice stripped from their plant. The still-green grains of rice can be ... 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