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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

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February 25th 2011
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Walking up to Shiyan Elementary School for the first time with my TA Elena, I noticed a nice concrete statue of two kids playing in the center of the entrance courtyard, with a typical Chinese flag waving high and proud behind it. The Chinese are happy and proud people, and that sentiment is shown for example by many tying red bandanas/rags underneath the back of ... read more

Asia » China » Shandong » Dongying

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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