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Sichuan and Honk

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August 4th 2010
Sichuan and Honk Of cuddly pandas, fiery nosh and glacial check-ins Note: For those of you who are in touch with me regularly, fear not: your sanity is quite sound, as far as I’m aware. It’s just that my blogs are always a few weeks behind, because typing more than 100 words or so a day is way too much like hard work, and hard work is A Bad Thing. So when I s ... read more

Asia » China

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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