lunch - wontons and a doughy thing

Suzhou born and bred

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December 12th 2010
It is 4am. The rain wakes me as it will when it is pelting down on a thousand old hollow clay plant pots – the fabric of my roof. I think of the last two days and my friend who lives in the old lanes in Suzhou. Within the first two days of arriving back in Suzhou, I went to see him but he wasn’t in. I waited by his door then knocked on the next door, the home of his mother but she wasn’t ... 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