breakfast room

return to Suzhou

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December 9th 2010
I am back because I need to put something to bed, I think. My Chinese sister and shu shu knew that I was coming but not exactly when so when I arrive, they are not here. I wait for a short while considering my next move whilst their neighbours come to look at me; something I am used to here. No one that I want comes, so I gather my things to walk back to the house in the lanes that I have l ... 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