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When I first got to Chengdu (Sichuan province) last Wednesday (2007-10-24), I ate that evening in a local restaurant down the street and the customers were all fixated on the TV screen. There was a rocket, obviously getting ready for takeoff. I tried to find out what was going on, with questions like 那是什么 (nǎ […]

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With all the headlines in the US newspapers over the last year about all the horrible transgressions of the Chinese, I immediately thought of America over a century ago.Sweatshops in China?
Where do you think child labor laws in the United States came from?
Pollution? That pea soup London Fog was caused by coal burning smog…
In other […]

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