When I originally put Qingdao on my itinerary, there was one real draw. It had been a German colony during the Age of Imperialism in China and represented one of the best examples of foreign influence during the tumultuous time when the last Chinese Dynasty was crumbling under the pressure of internal divisions, foreign [...]
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First, let me apologize for not writing more while I’ve been in China. I’ve been thinking about you all very much and have wanted to write, but it is difficult to write without having access to the blog. It is much easier to write to you all when I can see the blog myself and [...]
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Peking Duck or KFC?
I am not much of a food connoisseur and rarely care what I eat, but being in a different country is, well, different. One of the things I always try to do is go to an “authentic” restaurant in each country I visit (instead of normal street food or food cooked by [...]
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#1 The Hair Cuts
One of the things you may have noticed about me from my pictures or knowing me is that I like to keep my hair short. It’s not that I’m bald, I just don’t want to “do a comb-over”. Additional benefits include using at least 10 minutes a day more usefully than most [...]
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So, I get this e-mail from one of my biggest blog fans (I won’t tell you that it was my mom), and she suggests that I put a few more quirky stories in my next blog entry. Like you, I’m sure, she likes to hear some of the awkward situations I’ve gotten myself into, or [...]
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