View from the Bund at night in Shanghai

We're in China, Babe!

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April 16th 2014
For some time now Sharon and I would marvel to each other, perhaps the first thing in the morning, perhaps as we’re sitting down to eat dinner, or when another of the many items on or Checklist-for-China had been satisfied (e.g. getting shots, sending our passports away for the visa, getting them back again, getting smog masks… somehow I wound up with the one with cute little dragons on it), w ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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