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january and exotic fruits

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January 11th 2010
today wei went to get a haircut and on the way home we stopped at a fruit market. i got my first-ever dragonfruit, some strawberries, and some oranges. there was a lot of exotic stuff that i had never seen before- google told me the purple things that look like a plum-persimmon cross are actually mangosteen (i have mangosteen lotion, but for some reason i thought the fruit would be more, uh, man ... read more

Asia » China » Jiangxi » Nanchang

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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