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Travel Back In Time to 1930s Shanghai
The French concession of Shanghai still dwells in its old place as one of the most beautiful areas in the city, but the scenes of Shanghai in the early decades of last century are lost in time forever....
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Taiwan No! Market
On hearing about the ‘Taiwan Yes! Night Market’ in Qianmen street, I was excited and started planning a trip. Rounding up a couple of friends, I prepared myself for what I hoped would be a unique...
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The good old days: China firsts in pictures
As changes made in the recent third plenum start to, ever-so-slowly, take effect, a series of photographs from old China have emerged, as though to remind us of the after effects of the third plenary...
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A Billion Shoppers can’t be wrong
They say shop til you drop and when it comes to shopping, the scale of competition in China is huge. We are talking about buying and selling in the world’s most populous country, where rivalry amongst...
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10 Funny English Signs Made in Taiwan
Taiwanese people are highly educated folk with 39% of the population holding degrees in higher education and a 97.8% literacy rate. Unfortunately, though English is taught from preschool through...
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Ancient Apartments
When Tang Xiangting, the founder of Lixin Cloth Factory, built these apartments in 1919 for his senior technicians, they were the talk of the town and envy of all. Located at the flourishing Lixin Road...
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No Pants on Harbin Subway
Harbin subway saw a group of folk deciding to travel without pants as part of World Earth Day, April 22. There were more than 40 participants, who took off their pants on the subway to show off their...
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Botanical Beijing
Beijing Botanical Garden (北京植物园) is one of the most beautiful places in Beijing, especially in spring time. But, sadly, it is not very well known (or at least visited) among foreigners. The garden...
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Riding The Tide
Under the blue subtropical sky of Foshan City, Guangdong Province, the annual fishermen’s camp revives a normally deserted dock in Sanshui District by the North River. Dozens of overturned wooden...
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Paper People
Photographs by Meng Qingchun (孟庆春) The villages of Shuidong (水东村) and Dengcun (邓村) in the mountains of Guangdong Province are something of a rarity in this highly industrialized province crammed with...
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Stick Stick Army
“When I first went to Chongqing I thought the city was full of gangsters,” a woman told me. “Peasant-looking men stood on the streets armed with thick bamboo sticks!” The “gangsters” she was referring...
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The Saccharine South
Starting in mid-October, on farm fields scattered among the hilly areas of southern Jiangxi Province, farmers begin their annual harvest of sugarcane. Like many other places in China’s countryside,...
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