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My Favorite Place

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September 2nd 2010
All this time, I've kept putting off writing about my favorite place in Kunming. I'm just afraid I can't do it justice. I've been known to claim it's my favorite place in the world: the biggest farmer's market in town. I should start off by saying that farmer's markets in China and America are two totally different beasts. In America, the infatuation with farmer's markets seems to be somethi ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

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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