 | To Live
2005-11-14, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | Of the many Chinese movies that have been produced over the years, one of the best-known movies in America is To Live. I recall watching it with my parents when I was younger, but I could not stay int... |
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| Purpose of Life
2005-11-14, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | One of the assignments for language class was an article about life ambitions. The author met an old school friend who told him that he had now taken up art class and was extremely busy. The author wa... |
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| Chinese Boldness or the Lack Thereof
2005-11-14, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | I was walking to dinner with some of the Duke students and two local Beijing young men. One of them, Yan Yan, asked me a very interesting question: “If a guy in China came up to you and asked you for ... |
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| Democracy in China
2005-11-14, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | I was reading an article for language class by Wei Ming Quan titled “From the United States Elections to China’s Village Elections.” Mr. Wei viewed elections within his village and then later compared... |
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| Pet Peeves
2005-11-14, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | When I arrived in China, I found that for the most part there really wasn’t anything that I couldn’t adapt to. However, I have slowly discovered that I am definitely not completely adapted to China. I... |
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| Chinese History
2005-11-14, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | When I was a sophomore in high school, I took the class world history. In that class, we touched briefly upon all the civilizations of the world, including China’s many dynasties. Back then, I could n... |
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| Not Meant to Live Alone
2005-11-14, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | So I was sitting on the train from Nanjing to Xi'An and because I didn't know anyone, I didn't talk to anyone the entire trip. I basically sat, read my book, and looked out the window at the passing s... |
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 | Mandarin Days
2005-10-17, Beijing, China. By: Burntfish | | It's been a while, so here we are with a mammoth update of our 40 days and 40 nights in China.......
We left Vietnam behind us and were bid our final farewells by stoney-faced border officials. A b... |
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 | Busy in Beijing
2005-09-24, Beijing, China. By: L_nevraum | | Whew! What a busy few days we have had! We have been running (literally) non-stop since arriving in Beijing on Thursday morning. Thursday was a bad day for us since we had horrible luck with taxi c... |
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 | That Wall, you know the one, the Great one...
2005-09-06, Beijing, China. By: chubbs | | I thought chinese food was just fatty and greasy in the states, but it really is that greasy. I would say there are definitely some fat people here. Not like Houston, but a few here and there. With... |
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 | Flight to the next continent? Piece of cake...
2005-08-30, Beijing, China. By: chubbs | | After one Xanex and about 7 Baileys, the short 10 hour flight to Beijing was over! I slept on the floor of the plane, spread across four seats… only the first ten minutes of those flights are civil, ... |
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| The Decline of Chinese History...
2005-09-01, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | So I just came back from my outing with Jiao LaoShi...and I must say...I'm both impressed and deeply disappointed by this trip.
My teacher and I took a taxi and we ended up at the gate to the Temp... |
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| Beautiful Day
2005-09-01, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | It is the 1st day of September and thank the Lord that the weather is absolutely gorgeous today! I'm sooo happy! Ever since I first returned to Beijing from XinJiang...I haven't seen a blue sky. Today... |
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| First week of School
2005-08-25, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | So I'm about a week behind on updating...so this'll probably be a long entry...
I'm now at school..and actually have already started classes. I returned to Beijing last Wednesday evening. The plane... |
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 | The flying Red Flag
2005-08-17, Beijing, China. By: alexandem | | Wow, China was amazing (we left the airport, sure we didn’t get further than the car park, but we left the airport, that constitutes as a visit). It was the most depressing airport we’ve ever been to... |
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 | Arrival!
2005-08-10, Beijing, China. By: jininchina | | I've finally arrived in Beijing! I spent about 16 hours on the plane and 4 waiting in airports. I love my system of getting over jet lag. I figure out the time in the destination city and sleep accord... |
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 | Ancient Areas of China and also Karaoke Night
2005-06-20, Beijing, China. By: incubus158 | | Our first touring today consited of Tienamen Square and also the Forbidden city. We parked near Tienamen and were warned to be careful of pick pockets. Rocky explained a lot of the history of Tienam... |
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| Old Friends In Their Homeland
2005-06-19, Beijing, China. By: incubus158 | | Today we woke up very early to catch the final flight to Beijing; about 5 AM. We were waiting a while after sitting down in our seats and I took a little nap. I think I mostly relaxed on the plane a... |
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 | last days in beijing
2005-06-05, Beijing, China. By: sarakatrin | | Either China agrees with me, or I am seriously out of touch with my body's complaint system. Against the odds of not enough sleep and too much alcohol following hard mental and physical work, hot sun... |
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 | parting wisdom.
2005-06-03, beijing, China. By: karl | | mike, a student from last year and the ta this year, left today. he is heading back to washington dc for his fulbright orientation. he will be coming back in july to do research on community farms and... |
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| thoughts from beijing
2005-05-29, Beijing, China. By: karl | | An internet connection has been out of reach for a bit. i have writings and pictures of a bit of excitement to post, but they are on my computer. i've figure a system out. they will be posted here soo... |
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| i'm alive. i'm tired.
2005-05-24, beijing, China. By: karl | | i'm tired. we arrived at our hotel in the beijing forestry university last night around 11 pm. most of us were awake by 6 am. not enough sleep after 17 hours of flight time. it is now 5;30 pm. i'm try... |
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| Lamasery, Hot Pot
2005-02-16, Beijing, China. By: megancknox | | Our last day in Beijing was decidedly the best. The sky finally cleared, as the snow had swept away much of the smog. We went to a lamasery in the morning, where I really enjoyed walking amongst the s... |
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| The party
2005-02-14, Beijing, China. By: megancknox | | One evening in Beijing we had a “party” with the Tsinghua students. We were all very excited about the prospect of a party with free beer after a long day of sight-seeing, so we put on our nice (in my... |
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