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Thu, 22 May 2008 | By williamwong | Views [973]
For the first time in Chinese history, the government has announced 3 days mourning to the victims of such natural disaster. From the Chinese President to the ordinary people, from north to south, from China to Chinese overseas bureaus, from all concerned ... Read more >
Thu, 22 May 2008 | By gabyber | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 21 May 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [534]
Gertrude Stein wrote it, and I doubt she was talking about Beijing, but it applies. Because the city is absolutely covered Rose Parade style with the thorny, sweet-smelling flora. The flowers are planted everywhere and of all colors. Along the ... Read more >
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [944]
Xinjiang? Take Utah, make it as big as Alaska, wrinkle it up some, pull its bottom down below sea level, make its mountains a mile taller. Then, for good measure, put in it a desert as big as--Utah itself.
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [760]
Do you remember your first human touch? Your first steps? Your first words? Alas, these memories are irretrievable to us all. But the sensation can still be attained later in life. The first time you say something to a stranger in a foreign language ... Read more >
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [768]
There is no English map of Xinjiang. Not even Pinyin. Only Chinese. But I can read the elevation numbers: four thousand, five thousand, six thousand, seven thousand. Not bad, thinks a mind accustomed to elevation in feet. But that mountain is not seven ... Read more >
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [724]
The immensity of China's West is as the Immensity of Space: it can be witnessed, but not comprehended.
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [685]
If you pushed Mount Whitney out of an airplane over the mountains here, you might not be able to find Her again.
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [804]
"The top-grade present for friendly intercourse." --Printed on a box containing stone ornaments.
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [655]
Kernfucious Say: If you know what it is you seek, you needn't leave home.
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [726]
Is it wrong of me to pretend I don't know there is a fee for bicycle parking, shrugging my shoulders until they give up asking? I think it is wrong to charge a bicycle parking fee. There are very few Absolutes in Life, but that Bicycling is the Godliest ... Read more >
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [19591] | Comments [4]
After a three hour trip through some fairly scenic country over a heap of rivers and through a heap more tunnels, (this is why the people in Sichuan couldn't get in or out - same road system) I ended up in Tuxin then got the shuttle up to Tangkou. A ... Read more >
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [488]
The flags are out again, this time at half staff. The Chinese government declared three days of mourning for the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake disaster. There are Big Character signs (these are signs posted around China usually in red and white ... Read more >
Tue, 20 May 2008 | By bodiekern | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 19 May 2008 | By celinexiaolin | Views [856]
A billion people nation coming to a standstill to pay tribute to the 34,000 people that died in the Sichuan quake on May 12th 2008 is very powerful to experience.
From our office, 3 metro stops away and in a straight line from Tian an Men square ... Read more >
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