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September 14th 2005
So much has happened since I've last been able to log-in to this. I had a shrimp incident a couple days ago which really upset me in the beginning. I went to a restaurant and asked for some tea and jaod-zi (what the Northerners from the states would call "dumplings") but they gave me shrimp. (In Chinese the word for shrimp is "xia" and the word for tea is "cha", they must have misunderstood my ... 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