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China Expat is a cultural and literary forum for expatriates interested in China and has been published by Asia Briefing Ltd since 2001. The sites resident China culture writers have included such expatriate luminaries as Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Graham Thompson, Josh Gartner and now Ernie Diaz.
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Literature
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Niels Bohr and His Chinese Coat-of-Arms
Niels Bohr and His Chinese Coat-of-Arms
Niels Bohr was well aware of the parallel between his concept of complementarity and Chinese thought. -
China Moments
China Moments
Cultural clashes occurred nonstop; we called them “China moments.” -
End of the Revolution
End of the Revolution
That was why, ever since the Communists took over in 1949, Mao hadn’t stopped making fake smoke over fake fires. -
Butterfly Lovers
Butterfly Lovers
Heaven must have been smiling on them, allowing them to get away with stealing these forbidden fruits, at a time when boys and girls were not allowed to spend time in each other’s company. -
Judge Dee and the Poison Plums
Judge Dee and the Poison Plums
Your Honour had then connected Dark Orchid’s report about the General’s fourth wife having had an unsightly mole on her breast, with the reference in Ding’s poem! -
Ways That Are Dark - Ralph Townsend's Shanghai
Ways That Are Dark - Ralph Townsend's Shanghai
They hold the nets against the ship’s drains, and when anything that was once food issues forth they catch it in the nets and handle it down to their sampans.
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