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Possibly the most striking thing about The Art of War , the ancient Chinese military treatise, is...

China Kenneth Champeon

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China: Surf's Up

Surf's up in China as shunned sport catches a wave...

China AFP/Dan Martin

Dreaming Under Purple Bedsheets: Hong Kong's Regal Airport Hotel

On my last morning in Hong Kong I awoke from a sound night's sleep, pulled back my purple bedcove...

China Steven K. Bailey

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Asian Libraries - Canada

University of Toronto Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library Toronto Canada With over 340,000 volumes, ...

China / Japan / Korea, N Christina Gosnell

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Lunar New Year Traditions

HONG KONG, Jan 22, 2004 - Hongkongers will play mah jong but superstition prevents them from bett...

China / Taiwan AFP/Mark McCord

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In the mood for moon

All over the world, Chinese families get together to celebrate the beauty of the brightest object...

China Blue Lam

Xiaojin, Sichuan, China

Thoughts of Old Time From a Night-Mooring Under Niuzhu Mountain -- Li Bai

This night to the west of the river's edge There is not one cloud in the whole blue sky, As I wat...

China Dawn Stanton

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You've seen them in the movies. Maybe you've seen them on the news. For all I know, you could be ...

China Kenneth Champeon

Comoran Fisher

People of Yangshou

People of Yangshou

China tomber.de

Hong Kong Duet-Voices of Old Hong Kong

Hong Kong's Chinatown When you explore the western district of Hong Kong Island, you enter into a...

China Robert Tompkins

This was taken on the Dragon River, not far from Yangshuo.

Chinese Reflections

Start I've long been fascinated with reflections, both my own (very narcissistic, I admit) and th...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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China's leaning towers face moment of truth

The firm of Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) won an international competition in 2002 to...

China AFP/Charles Whelan

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Philosopher as Prankster: Lao-tzu and the Tao Te Ching

* * * * * Review of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching , Everyman's Library, 1994. * * * * * Discerning reade...

China Kenneth Champeon

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Hesse and the Asian Dream

Lord Macaulay once famously declared that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth th...

China / India / Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Recipe: Ginger Sauce

Served with mutton soup and all types of Jiaozis. 3 tablespoons grated ginger 8 cloves garlic, cr...

China Habeeb Salloum

Meng Hui on his Ride

One arm one leg across China

Working his craft from behind a small card table set up on the side of the Li River in Yangshuo, ...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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An Incurable Romantic

Several centuries ago Western natural philosophers made a remarkable discovery. It is called the ...

China Kenneth Champeon

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Beggars. To give or not to give?

Despite all the flattering statistics about an economy taking flight, the truth is, there are man...

China Blue Lam

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China's Qinghai-Tibet railway

News on China's Qinghai-Tibet railway . . .

China AFP

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General The Man in Seat 61 . Train travel and schedules for most countries of Asia (and the world...

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