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24 Hours in Zhejiang Province

Date: 2008-9-29 8:57:00 by meganeaves Tags: Zhejiang hollywood China film set bored Train Hangzhou

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Having a rare common weekend off, my American friend and I opted to travel to a place we'd heard a lot about. Hengdian is supposedly the Hollywood of China, and we even went so far as to check

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The Adventures of Putuo Shan Island

Date: 2008-7-17 3:56:00 by jasmine Tags: Zhejiang

Putuoshan Island

It was just past noon one Friday when I got out of class and ran into one of Anji's three other foreign teachers, who lived and worked at a different school from mine. She was about to set out on a weekend holiday to Ningbo, another large city roughly four hours from where we lived, on the coast of Zhejiang Province south of Shanghai.

I invited myself along and we trekked the hou

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24 hours in Zhejiang Province

Date: 2008-6-13 5:04:00 by nancy Tags: Zhejiang

Hangzhou

Having a rare common weekend off, my American friend and I opted to travel to a place we'd heard a lot about. Hengdian is supposedly the Hollywood of China, and we even went so far as to check out the website. In true Chinese form, it was impossible to maneuver with a lot of sparkly graphics that serve no purpose, and was frustratingly vague. The only information we managed to glean was that th

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The Dance Hall

Date: 2008-4-1 1:47:00 by megan Tags: Zhejiang Travel

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It was a long, hot Chinese summer, as Chinese summers tend to be. Especially in the middle and southern parts of the country, the heat can become almost unbearable at times. On one particular day, I was out shopping with my colleague, Ivy, an English teacher in my school. Ivy was petite and cute I often envied the way that her perfect, soft Asian skin never even hinted at a glisten of sweat. I,

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Drinking Tea in Fujian

Date: 2008-3-25 23:01:00 by david Tags: Chinese Tea Fujian

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People of Fujian like drinking tea, and  "Kongfu Tea"  in Fujian is known to the world. To drink  "Kongfu Tea" , an exquisite and delicate pocket tea set should be prepared, including the red stoneware pottery teapot, fine porcelain teacups with the size of walnuts and also the pot for boiling the water. The tea leaf is Oolong tea which is a kind of half-ferme

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