The Beginning of the Parade

The banner reads "BN Charity Choir" and in Chinese, it says "bai nian ai xin he chang tuan" ...most of the name was translated into English, except for "bai nian" (which means 100 years). Instead, it was translated as BN...Bai Nian....get it? Oh, China

Beijing Shamrocks

March 16th 2008
It finally happened. After over a year and a half of living in China, after countless sunrises and sunsets, after thousands of piles of tofu, it got me. I let myself relax, thinking it could never happen to me. But it did. Today I planted my shoe directly on top of a freshly hawked loogie. It was an accident. It's not as though I go skipping around Beijing, following old men who unceas ... 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

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