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A Life in Fuzhou - An Unexpected Trip to Hong Kong

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April 5th 2015
A couple of weeks ago, I was toying with different ways to start this blog, and I wrote this as a possible first sentence: "Things here in Fuzhou seemed to go from 0 to house-classes-job in about 10 days flat." Now I think I can write the second sentence: "Then, things here in Fuzhou got dangerously close to resuming houselessness, classlessness and joblessness in another 10 days flat." D ... 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