Merry Christmas!!!

From Shanghai to Paradise to Beijing: Christmas '09

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January 1st 2010
First of all- I wish everyone a very happy New Years, and I hope that collectively our next ten years will be more productive (and hopefully less destructive than the past) and bring everyone good luck and fortune. Also I would like to remind the reader that this is the year of the Tiger (John's animal year) which is a terribly Chinese animal and therefore good luck, though not as good as the year ... 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