Say What? Du Fu lived in that??? No, because you lied to me!

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January 28th 2011

Published: January 28th 2011

That's exactly what I'm thinking right now as I write this. The oh so "knowledgable" local who told me Du Fu, the most famous poet in Chinese history, lived in that little kabozo was wrong. I doubted her at first, but went along with what she said, making sure I displayed an engaging disposition to be polite. But deep down, I knew that wasn't the famous thatched cottage of Du Fu. The problem was, ... Read Full Entry

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Lindsay Dillon

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Graduated in 2011, in anthropology, Japanese and Chinese at Kansas State University. I also somewhat study Tibetan. I have a keen interest in Korean, Thai and Yucatec Maya language, dont ask why. :)) I'm constantly in awe of where these small hands have taken me, and of where my feet might be swept off to. And how such powerful everlasting messages of love and life, instilled in these opportunities, present themselves as an enormous gift to such a small frail and mortal body. I now better understand and appreciate the world's people, through my time as an expat overseas. I have traveled arou... full info

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