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Bookstore

This is the huge bookstore.. Clue to the chinese way: the half of the "kids" section consisted of books like "Primary Level Mathematics Olympics Study Guide" and "Tips for Entering the National Maths Contest" -i bought a comic on Confucious' "Analects", hehe
Arrival

June 21st 2005
Well, Here I am in Shenzhen, after a beautiful flight across Russia (yay JON!) I love how the clouds look from above, it's so pure and full of promise. Shenzhen is a huge metropolis, littered with futuristic skyscrapers -watching all that japanese anime, I sometimes forget that there are cities such as Shenzhen which are actually pretty close to what's depicted on screen. And the lychees here ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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
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