The village within a city

(PART 1) The worth of a passport

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July 28th 2010
Heya folks, bumming around Hong Kong after a diversion to Indonesia. Visa hassles still as hassly as ever. Visa was rejected due to a missing form, so got to send all the paperwork back to Xian and then they will post it back again after collecting the right forms. Red level thunderstorms here which is quite exotic, anyway got given the key to a flat of a nice English girl who's been teaching here ... 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