Auntie and Uncle

Lychee Orchard

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June 26th 2005
My last day in Shenzhen was spent lychee picking and lychee peeling and lychee eating ! Look at all the lychees! Lychees! Lychees Everywhere! Me => in tree, => munching lychees! Beats watermelon picking, that's for sure. The pictures of this joyful moment were captured on a friend's camera, and the pictures will go up when he sends them to me. (Me, to stop munching merely to take a pictur ... 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