WARNING: LONG POST, MAY CAUSE EYE CRAMPS. REMINDER NOT TO SIT TOO CLOSE TO THE SCREEN
October 15th 2009 Only take this post in small doses or find a comfy seat and settle down for my longest one so far---Im sure it takes me longer to write this than you to read this:
OK, so obviously (or maybe not) I am not actually in Yunnan Province right now but sitting in relative comfort--on my butt numbing back-ache of a chair shifting from one unlady-like pose to another--at my computer in Sichuan Pro
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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 
