Lost Heaven Restaurant

Happy Chinese New Year!

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January 27th 2009
Chinese New Year’s Eve and Chinese New Year’s Day in Shanghai have come and gone. The fireworks on New Year’s Eve were really quite something, as you’ll see on the photos. As for New Year’s Day, I celebrated by going sightseeing and then going out for dinner with my new German friend, Inga. It was extremely cold on New Year’s Eve (the water of the hot water pipes of the gas furnace a ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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