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November 15th 2012
November 14, 2012 We are just back from a dinner at a new (to us) restaurant, this one specializing in DongBei (Northeast) food. It was a good find as our favorite DongBei has been closed for renovations since I arrived. Garlic chive/egg dumplings, a cold salad of carrots, cukes, seaweed, tofu, cilantro, and napa cabbage with a great soy sauce based dressing, hen hao (very good!) Y ... 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