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Book Review: A Journey Down China’s Route 66

Since it’s the May Labour Day holiday in China this week, lots of Chinese are out traveling, and since I hate crowds I am not. What I did spend my first day of the three day holiday doing was finishing up Rob Gifford’s great book China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising …Read More

JohnG

// May 2, 2008 //

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A Man at the Center of Change in 19th Century China

For all those Chinese parents looking to get their kids into Harvard or Yale, they should take their noses out of those how-to-books writen by parents of successful students and instead read the biography of one of their countrymen. Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America (China Economic Review Publishing) is the biography of …Read More

JohnG

// Feb 23, 2008 //

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Book Review: A Journey Down China’s Route 66

A Man at the Center of Change in 19th Century China

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