MY BIKE

THE BEIJING BIKE

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May 30th 2006
We walked around 15 minutes under the stifling sun to the corner bike shop. Guofeng or Jeff, our appointed Tsinghua guide/parent/friend/student managed to bargain with the shopkeeper to get at least 20 of us "bikes". Now you might just ask why the quotes? Well in China "bikes" are not really sold under a brand name like Huffy or something of that nature, but more or less it is just a contraptio ... 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