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October 2nd 2006
Well, that's it. I'm not coming home...ever. I have found my new home in Hangzhou, China. Never heard of it? Neither had I until about a week ago when thumbing through Lonely Planet for a place to chill between bookend episodes of chaos in Shanghai and Hong Kong. A city of 6 million (yeah you read that right), Hangzhou is about 2 hours south of Shanghai on the shores of Xi Hu (West Lake ... read more

Asia » China » Zhejiang » Hangzhou

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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