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December 4th 2013
Some thoughts about working and workers in China today. To begin with, when we tried to buy tickets to Vietnam at the railway station two days ago, we were told by a clerk at a wicket that there wasn't a train any more to Vietnam. This surprised me and I searched Google when I got home to see if other travellers had posted anything about his. They hadn't. We checked with the Vietnamese ... 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