5 Days in Chengdu Prologue: Day 0; March 4, 2005 It’s been ten months since I arrived in China. Five months in Beijing, one month in Shanghai, two weeks in Guangzhou, two weeks, in Hong Kong, one more week in Beijing, another month in Shanghai, another week in Beijing, one more week in Shanghai, and a week in Zhuhai. Got all that? Good. This week however, I am in none of those places. Right now I’m in our Guangzhou office, helping my coworker Phil with some work. He’s mentioned that next week he will be going to Chengdu, in Sichuan Province, and would I like to go? I of course am never one to pass up an opportunity to travel, so naturally I accept. There is a catch, however: as this in a sense is a
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