Old people sitting under a tree

Lost in translation

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June 20th 2005
11:00 am, Xintiandi Today, I plan to walk around Beautiful Dirty Shanghai aimlessly by myself with no plans whatsoever. What i did was, i bought myself a tourist map of shanghai, a few city magazines and headed my way for Huai Hai Road. On the way there, after passing a DVD shops (damn murah man, 4 ringgit only!!), i saw a bunch of old chinaman who sat around this tree. They looked funny so i too ... 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