Dinner with Minchao

Shopping and Phebes

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August 12th 2010
The day after Wuzhen, I met up with my Chinese friend Minchao who just came back from studying abroad in Germany. We met at the Bailian Shi Mao International Center for dinner. She brought along her friend Irene who studied English Literature at Fudan. We went back and forth talking in Chinese and English. We ate duck, chicken, and fish. After dinner, we decided to go to a convenient store to grab ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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