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Teaching English in Hebei

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June 8th 2010
After a two hour delay at the Beijing train station Chris and I were on the slow train to the middle of nowhere. The train ride was four hours, and for the most part it wasn’t bad. We nodded off a few times and talked to some people around us, a couple who were actually from the county we would be going to. We were the only foreigners on the train, which was only the beginning of that experience ... read more

Asia » China

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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