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January 8th 2011
Happy New Year to everyone! The Christmas and New Year holidays are not as commonly celebrated here in China, but we have been surprised at the amount of decorations around the city and Christmas music heard in restaurants and shopping malls everywhere. I think it is simply another way of embracing the culture of a Western society without actually acknowledging (or being ignorant of) the religiou ... 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