Huxinting Tea House

Shanghai and our first taste of 'the stare'

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September 27th 2012
In a rather sleep deprived state we landed in Shanghai naively feeling like cultured tourists, after all we had navigated the English speaking, tourist haven of New Zealand without a real hitch. Obviously, we were wrong. Getting off the plane itself had become a gauntlet of bodies as Chinese people seem to have little regard to any safety protocols, or procedures imposed by the airlines...after ge ... 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