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Posted by manlin on Saturday, December 31, 2005 - 08:48 AM
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First impressions of China - circa 1998.
For more info please visit http://www.china-expert.org
Wow, how time flies! I have been in China nigh on seven years and in that time so much has changed. I don’t mean the global News stories such as 9/11, SARs, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, The Tsunami, Earthquakes, China’s first and second manned space missions, the appreciation of the RMB and so on. No, I am referring to the changes in my conception of China and the Chinese people.
I was born in London, England, in the middle of the last century and grew up in the North-West of London in one of the quieter suburbs. Those were the days that children could play safely in the local stream, without fear of being poisoned by the polluted water, and could play in the local park without fear of being molested – or worse. In those days China could have been another planet, or even the dark side of the moon, since our knowledge of China was very scanty. We knew all about Chinese food (or thought we did), and were positive that all Chinese wore funny conical straw hats, carried everything in two straw baskets attached by a bamboo pole and could not pronounce the letter “r” but said “l” instead. In fact, if those days we knew more about the endangered Pandas than we did about China.
Read full article: 'Tempus Fugit'
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