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So...I Bought a One-Way Ticket to Shanghai

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August 25th 2009
In the spring of 2009, I applied for a full scholarship through the Chinese Government to study Mandarin full time at a Chinese university. Less than a month ago, I found out that I got it. A whirlwind of a month later, I left my friends, family and job, bought a one-way ticket to Shanghai and I am sitting in an apartment on the campus of the school I taught at in Shanghai 3 years ago typing this ... 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