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Tea Blooming
Date: 2008-4-21 5:11:00 by Megan; Tags: Chinese Tea
It's tea-time in Anji, the small town on the northern borders of Zhejiang Province that I have called home for the past year. White tea blooms roughly three weeks of the year, which makes this time of spring a little crazy around these parts. Vendors pop up in small shops everywhere, trying to peddle the first harvest of tea. Locals frequent markets to buy up the best picks of the annual crop ... View Details
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Shanghai-The Bund and Life along It
Date: 2008-3-5 19:48:00 by harry; Tags: Shanghai The Bund
Huangpu River passes thru Shanghai. There is a high and broad embankment on both sides of the River and this is called the Bund. The Bund has been the symbol of Shanghai for more than hundred years. Bund is an Indian word which means an embankment along a muddy waterfront and it is used in India very commonly. No one, however, can tell authoritatively as to how this word got transplanted in Shangh ... View Details
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Street in China
Date: 2008-4-28 22:18:00 by Christopher; Tags: China street
The one topic that always comes up no matter which foreigner I'm talking to is the vivacity of Chinese streets. No one visits China and leaves unimpressed by the liveliness of the city streets. To many of us, simply walking down the street in China is a bit of an adventure.
One of my colleagues, an Australian woman who has lived in China almost twenty years, said, When I go home to Melb ... View Details
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