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Yangshou West Street

Yangshou West Street

China Tom Ber

The Hekim Family

The Marvelous Hekim Family

It's just after five PM on the second day of Ramadan, and I'm in the dining room of the Hekim fam...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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Lunar New Year Traditions

HONG KONG, Jan 22, 2004 - Hongkongers will play mah jong but superstition prevents them from bett...

China / Taiwan AFP/Mark McCord

Dreaming Under Purple Bedsheets: Hong Kong's Regal Airport Hotel

On my last morning in Hong Kong I awoke from a sound night's sleep, pulled back my purple bedcove...

China Steven K. Bailey

Xiaojin, Sichuan, China

Thoughts of Old Time From a Night-Mooring Under Niuzhu Mountain -- Li Bai

This night to the west of the river's edge There is not one cloud in the whole blue sky, As I wat...

China Dawn Stanton

Possibly the most striking thing about The Art of War , the ancient Chinese military treatise, is...

China Kenneth Champeon

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Asian Libraries - Canada

University of Toronto Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library Toronto Canada With over 340,000 volumes, ...

China / Japan / Korea, N Christina Gosnell

Comoran Fisher

People of Yangshou

People of Yangshou

China tomber.de

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Philosopher as Prankster: Lao-tzu and the Tao Te Ching

* * * * * Review of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching , Everyman's Library, 1994. * * * * * Discerning reade...

China Kenneth Champeon

This was taken on the Dragon River, not far from Yangshuo.

Chinese Reflections

Start I've long been fascinated with reflections, both my own (very narcissistic, I admit) and th...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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Beggars. To give or not to give?

Despite all the flattering statistics about an economy taking flight, the truth is, there are man...

China Blue Lam

Recipe: Ginger Sauce

Served with mutton soup and all types of Jiaozis. 3 tablespoons grated ginger 8 cloves garlic, cr...

China Habeeb Salloum

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Hesse and the Asian Dream

Lord Macaulay once famously declared that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth th...

China / India / Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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You've seen them in the movies. Maybe you've seen them on the news. For all I know, you could be ...

China Kenneth Champeon

Hong Kong Duet-Voices of Old Hong Kong

Hong Kong's Chinatown When you explore the western district of Hong Kong Island, you enter into a...

China Robert Tompkins

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China's leaning towers face moment of truth

The firm of Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) won an international competition in 2002 to...

China AFP/Charles Whelan

Meng Hui on his Ride

One arm one leg across China

Working his craft from behind a small card table set up on the side of the Li River in Yangshuo, ...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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Recipe: Chicken with Ginseng

Serves from 4 to 6 A very tasty and healthy dish. 2 lbs. chicken cut into medium pieces 4 Tbs. ch...

China Habeeb Salloum

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China's Qinghai-Tibet railway

News on China's Qinghai-Tibet railway . . .

China AFP

Recipe: Fish and Scallops

Serves 6 to 8 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon ginger sauce 1/2 cup finely chopped onions 1 p...

China Habeeb Salloum

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