#43 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (..off to Beijing, maybe!)
July 18th 2006 The extra-ordinary has become the ordinary, and the adjustment to life in China is no longer so shocking.
Visitors come to China not to find luxurious indulgence or a serene retreat, but as Janet Carmisky explains in one of her essays: "We go to China because we want to be surprised, to access the inaccessible, to ponder the opposite, to observe the alternate, and to go home perhaps understandi
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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 
