Holiday Gatherings

Christmas, New Year’s and Beyond

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January 1st 2007
Happy Winter Holidays to All! Greetings from the cold and filthy city of Xining. This week, I’m wrapping up my semester at Qinghai Normal University. It has been a terrific jumpstart to my learning motor and I feel much better equipped to spend some time in more remote places again. Next week, I will travel into Golok and after visiting a few friends in their hometown villages, I will head ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet

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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