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10/17/06
China: Impressions, memories and silly signs ...
Categories: Country News, China
As just about everyone knows, the Olympics are being held in Beijing, China in 2008. Subsequently, the country is going nuts preparing for this huge event and invasion by all things international and sporty.
I was in Beijing months before the Asian Games were scheduled to take place in the neighborhood of the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and other remnants of the ancient and formerly grand, and saw the frenzy this sort of attention causes. (The games they were preparing for that year never happened, however, as this was March 1989,... more
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