Zhujiajiao Bridge 4

Zhujiajiao

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August 19th 2006
Last night the British Council in Shanghai held a reception dinner for all the newly arrived ELAs. We had been (falsely) led to believe it would be a fairly formal affair and so we were (mostly) booted and suited and suffering in the heat because of it. (Needlessly it turns out). We were again subjected to several speeches. The Confucius quote "Truly happiness is friends coming from afar" seems a ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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