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The Adventures of Putuo Shan Island

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

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

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

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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