Today is my last day in China for the summer. In the time that I’ve been here, I’ve found myself cocking my head more often than usual. There are certain moments here that are hard to explain given our Western backgrounds. These moments are the ones that have defined our experiences in China. They’re the [...]
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[wp_geo_map] It is said there are two Chinas – the eastern island and the western sea. Luoyang lies somewhere in the shallows of that sea. I went to see caves and kung-fu monks but learned more about the second China than I had expected. Not Quite Clockwork The second China doesn’t run quite as smoothly [...]
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[wp_geo_map] For most travelers, Shanghai is more Epcot than Ancient China (in reality, there’s a great deal of interesting history to be found, but that’s a subject for another post). If you walked carefully, you could spend a month in Shanghai and never feel that you’d left Manhattan. Longing for a taste of ancient China [...]
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