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Happy Holidays

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December 25th 2013
Happy Holidays everyone! We are thinking of you and wishing you the best! Holidays are (as with everything) similar and different here in China. The following are descriptions of familiar holidays and how we experienced them. Next post, I'll describe Chinese holidays. • Halloween: We began preparing for Halloween at the beginning of October. It is a big deal at o ... 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