That view

"If your eyelids are sweating..."

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September 4th 2010
"...then it's spicy." This quote from tonights dinner near Lao (Old) Beijing was followed by a short walk to a busy alleyway where some of us tried various animal kebabs. I actually only ate some sort of fried cocoon while my more adventurous comrades had scorpions, a lizard, and a tarantula -like spider. It really was the first scorpions I saw wriggling on their skewers that put me off the animal ... 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