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Tulous and True Beauty
Tulous and True Beauty
Built to last, and to serve, but not for beauty. Besides, if you’re trying to be beautiful, you’re better off straining to be natural.
Five Grassland Getaways
Five Grassland Getaways
There are realists, and there are dreamers. When it comes to national holidays in China, such as the week-long one starting tomorrow, realists outweigh dreamers by nine to one.
Three Chinese May Holiday Escapes
Three Chinese May Holiday Escapes
One view of Qiandao LakeThis year in China, national holidays have been divvied up. A transportation system, once pushed to collapse by hundreds of millions on their week-long odysseys, will now whistle along a mere hundred million or so.
Ngawa - Classically Un-Chinese
Ngawa - Classically Un-Chinese
To learn that Ngawa’s full name is “Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture” is to begin to learn how deep, diverse, and paradoxical China gets, for those who trouble to scratch the surface.
China Travel: Henan ‘77
China Travel: Henan ‘77
Who are we to deny the dictatorship of the proletariat – reactionaries or something?
On the Way to Lhasa
On the Way to Lhasa
Scorning Tuotuo is like scorning an old minority woman struggling to make ends meet.

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Man is not at his best sunning on a rock, but rather facing an environment which challenges him, body and soul.

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