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Travel Blog - December 8, 2005 · I love this city! Nanchang is so different from Beijing. In Beijing, international people were abundant. Nanchang is a city in the center of China, ringed on three sides by mountains and on the fourth by the massive Yangtze River. She is a city of 5 million people and so far the only non-Chinese I have seen are adopting parents. In our hotel there are Canadians, French and Americans - all here to adopt Chinese baby girls.
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Steeped in 50 Years of China's Subjugation
New York Times - December 1, 2005 · There is nothing in Western culture that quite corresponds with the traditional teahouse in China. The corner pub or Old West saloon come to mind, but as the captivating and beautifully acted production of Lao She's "Teahouse" by the Beijing People's Art Theater makes clear, there is no place that offers as broad a panorama of its society.
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Xinhuanet - December 9, 2005 - For most of the time since mid-October, oil painter Jiang Guofang has locked himself at home, sweating away at new pieces in a secluded courtyard in the small county town of Yanjiao, on the east border between Beijing and Hebei Province. In his spacious studio, visitors may find some of the artist's favourite paintings depicting pretty women and young men in ancient costumes against the backdrop of the Forbidden City.
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