julu road3

Our new home

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May 5th 2009
We’ve been in our new apartment for 3 weeks now, so I feel enough time has past that I can now speak about the attritional FIVE hours spent signing the lease. Ok, so maybe 2 hours of that was spent in grid-locked traffic on our way to 2 China Telecom offices (first one was closed by the time we were driven right up the pavement to the front door) to sort out an internet connection. We mad ... 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