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'Dried, salted strawberries', Chinese drinking rules and banking in China

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January 4th 2007
3rd Jan 2007 'Dried, salted strawberries' After a dreadful night's sleep, mostly caused by the tick tock of the alarm clock I had kindly been lent (I decided to take the battery out at 5.30am, having been awake for 3 hours, and promptly fell asleep), I got up early to go to the market with Yanling (host mother). Today we were going to buy 'jiaozi pi' (small, round, fla ... 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