angels

the one where Gillian meets an angel

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April 12th 2010
‘May you enjoy good fortune as expansive as the Eastern sky and longevity as long as the Southern mountain’ Well I didn’t think I would come to Beijing and meet an angel but this week I was invited to attend a Chinese wedding and thinking it might be very different I was pleased to go - and there I met an angel, well 2 actually. In the absence of cute and appropriately aged relations thes ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing » Haidian district

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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