Dancing under the flyover

Fall in the Pearl River Delta

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November 1st 2010
November 1, 2010 blog Last Saturday we attended the wedding party of a young colleague of ours. Minyi has been a fixture in the social work office since our arrival over four years ago and when we were making plans to return this fall, she urged us to have our visit coincide with her marriage. Legal marriages in China occur at a public office, with a perfunctory signing of papers and the lik ... 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