Chinese

A Traveler’s Ode to Bathroom Foibles

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April 15th 2013
No matter what culture you’re from, we all share certain things in common as human beings. We all need to breathe, we all need to eat, we all need fluids, and we all produce waste. There’s not much too much to say about breathing – unless you’re visiting a city like Beijing or Hong Kong and you’re from a small town. And what traveler worth his/her salt hasn’t deeply pondered the incred ... read more

Asia » China

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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