Pretty Lanterns at the Ditan Market

Chun Jie Kuai Le!

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February 16th 2010
Hi everyone! China is in the midst of celebrating Chinese New Year, which starts Spring Festival. In case you don't know, Saturday began the year of the Tiger (老虎 - laohu), which apparently is unfavorable for marriages and having a baby girl (I guess girls born in the year of the tiger are too unruly? Too headstrong or something? I don't know exactly, but I think their science might be off a ... 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