Yang Shuo

The Red Life

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August 5th 2004
I think that I will always have mixed feelings about my days in China. I had lived there for a year as an international student at Nanjing University. I spent most of my days studying Chinese and my nights hanging out with a great homestay family that I lived with in the southern part of the city. Over the course of that year, I found love, made lifelong friends, and grew a great deal as a person. ... read more

Asia » China

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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