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July 24th 2009
It's hard to treat each place Fi and I visit in isolation. Impossible, really, for me anyway. So China is necessarily set in stark contrast to India, although that's not fair to either place. I spend a lot of my time walking around trying to jive what I see, with what I read in the papers and books about these two places that, if you buy the media/demographic line, are going to have so much to ... 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