Out in the Typhoon

Sanya #2

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October 29th 2012
We will eat anything with legs, except a table, and anything with wings, except a plane - The Chinese Belle and I managed to order some dinner by ourselves in the cafeteria this week. She held her hands in the air and said "anything, anything" while I looked at the giant menu of Chinese characters and shook my head as if to say, I don't understand a flipping thing. We might 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