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Something Happened at the Great Wall – China, Asia
Great Wall
I remember being told the entire structure could be seen with the naked eye from the moon. I believed this, like I believed other urban legends as a child. The truth is, because the wall is very slender, it can only be seen from far away using super telescopes.
True or not, I sa
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Calculator Detente: The Art of the Deal in Beijing’s Hutong Market – China, Asia
The shopkeeper nodded when I showed four fingers and pointed to the vibrant hued silk shoe bags stacked in cords nearby. "Duo Shao Quan?" my mangled Chinese for "How much?" He grinned, still nodding, and answered me in equally mangled English. I looked at my husband and w
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Bargaining, Chinese Style – Beijing, China, Asia
My grandmother went to China before I did. Sometimes she would recount one of her many stories. My favorite was her entertaining haggling one. She would then proceed to explain how surprised she was when she turned around to look for my grandfather. Instead, she saw a Chinese lady running do
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Around the World in 80 Poems – Mexico City, China, Mongolia, Russia
Whether you have the wanderlust or you’re wander "lost", whether you have the travel bug or are simply travel sick, whether you’re on top of the world or feel six feet under, this book might be just what you need.
“I’m going travelling whether you come with me or not!” Without this ul
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Monks with Mad Skillz – Xiahe, China, Asia
While traveling in China in May 2007, my buddy Steve and I would check into Internet cafes on a more or less daily basis to update our blogs and email our wives. Internet cafes were plentiful across the country. It wasn't uncommon to have hundreds of computers in huge rooms with people o
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Savior of the Scroll – Guangzhou, China, Asia
The elevator door opened to an entire room full of baby strollers. Needless to say, there were large numbers of babies to say nothing of insanely smiling parents. The babies, all girls, seemed to be taking in the entire scene with equanimity, but the parents were bursting with open joy. I ne
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The Deeper China – Asia
Two sips of homemade rice wine from a sacred ox horn. A stroll through a forest of stone. A visit to a Chinese ethnic minority village. The jingling chorus of Maio women laden with silver jewelry, dancing. A lesson in Chinese cooking. The romantic night view of Hong Kong. All transportation
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Book Review: Travelers’ Tales China, edited by Sean O’Reilly, James O’Reilly and Larry Habegger – Asia
Travelers' Tales
China: True Stories
Travelers' Tales Japan: True Stories was "the" book that helped me understand Japanese culture and its people when I taught there. Nothing, well almost nothing, surprised me and that made a difference. Understanding does not necessari
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Let me out, Now – China, Asia
Riding in a taxi in China is an experience. I say experience because I don’t think bone chillingly horrible mistake is what people want to read when dreaming about visiting China. But perhaps traveling around in a Chinese taxi is so upsetting because of the simple fact that my expectations w
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The Word – China, Asia
"Hashish?" My eyes widened, he couldn’t be serious.
It was a crowded street in the middle of Nanjing Road in busy Shanghai. People were rushing by in different directions, dogging cars, scooters and each other. A man in an oversized coat had whispered "the word" in Engli
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Chinese Teenagers – Shanghai, China, Asia
"Mountain Dew."
"Come on, you can’t be serious."
The man across the table stared at me; he was not kidding. Everyone burst into laughter. Me too.
"Colon."
"No way, but that’s a grammatical…" He cut me off.
"I know."‘
"What you are
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The Rope and The Great Wall – China, Asia
“The Great Wall of China was built during the time of Emperor Nasi Goreng to keep the rabbits out.”
I was holding up a sign proclaiming those words as I stood proudly getting my photo taken in the first tower of The Great Wall of China. Lots of Chinese people around me stared, whether it was
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Travel to China with Kids – Asia
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Hospitality, the Chinese Way (1 of 2) – Yullin, China
This wasn’t the plan. I was to be standing on the Great Wall, but instead I am singing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" to 150 Chinese students. Not only am I singing, but I am also marching in place. To top off the tune, a jaunty salute and an exaggerated bow are even tossed in. It is a
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The Best of Ancient China – Asia
China, the mystery of the Orient, and also its greatest paradox. The fastest growing economy in the world from history’s oldest civilization, whence steel and glass skylines are haloed by crumbling walls and well-heeled bankers rub shoulders with barefooted ethnic minorities.
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Beijing Reaches for Olympic Glory – China, Asia
Beijing’s Olympic moment
Beijing 2008: The cute "Fuwa" mascots
The roar of 90,000 Chinese fans rose along with Zhang Wenxiu’s hammer as it arced through China’s National Stadium. Cheers exploded into thunder as her score vaulted into first place – and a shot
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Where Am I Wearing – Asia
In 2007, not needing much of a reason to travel anywhere (as I’m sure most of you can relate to), I hatched a harebrained idea: What if I looked at the tag of my favorite items of clothes and went to the countries and factories to meet the people who made them. Most people thought I was a
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Authentic Tranquility in the Bustle of Modern China – Asia
Traditional and Simplified Chinesse
Cigarette dangling from his dry lips, a gap-toothed, leathery-faced farmer moved to the back of the Taiyuan to Wutiashan bus to talk to me. While I’d been studying Mandarin in Beijing for six months and for a few years back in the west before t
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Random Observations on China – Asia
Now that China has made its official debut as a superpower on the Olympic world stage and the fabled fire breathing dragon is fully awake, a personal reflection on a recent trip there this May is certainly overdue. Unfortunately, the visit eerily coincided with the Sichuan Earthquake which add
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Chinese Holidays: Mountains and Seas of People – China, Asia
Mount Huangshan
At the top of the mountain, we walked past a pavilion next to a picturesque meadow and then saw the lineup looming ahead, snaking up the next peak. A guard patrolled the meadow, preventing people from jumping the queue. A man in front of me in line was playing ter
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