About half of the class

A FULL day of educating and being educated

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April 16th 2007
I think I probably learned as much, if not more, than my students today. I learned that there is no Western breakfast here and if you want to eat, you eat Chinese breakfast. For me today that included what looked like rolls of light-fried bread, fried egg, rice soup and what looked like a hash brown pancake. No coffee and no tea for breakfast. Only soup as a liquid. That was a little difficult ... 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