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Some time later...

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September 17th 2017
Some time later...I've been back at school for a week already and as usual time slips by in a weird warpy continuum. As we used to say in Korea "The seconds go by like hours, the weeks go by like minutes". Jinhua is simultaneously alien yet so familiar, everything is in the same place and there are no surprises, yet I still feel out of step with the rhythms of life in China. Meal times are e ... 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