Aquarium on Nanjing Lu

Parenting parents, crazed cabbies, and...

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December 16th 2010
Shanghai Got into Shanghai and stayed at a hotel in the French Concession with my folks. Next day woke up to show them the Bund, Nanjing Road and met up with Victor (a good friend who teaches at Anhui University of Technology) and his girlfriend Tian for lunch south of People’s Square. It was a pretty glorious meal. Cilantro, peanuts and tofu that looked and tasted like beef; crispy green be ... 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