Ancient Canal, Yangzhou

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November 14th 2010
Photos: …..Max (Gizmo) from class ten, certainly the best English speaker in Grade three, gets a negative score, normally dished out only for talking out of turn (or worse) in class. In this case he gets an answer wrong, confusing “before” & “after”, (“Thursday is before Wednesday”). Normally I just pass the question to the n ... 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