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Sandra LeeFor

'Improving' Simatai will just destroy it

Several years ago I visited the Badaling section of the Great Wall.
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Karyn Piechule

Not all that lost in translation

After a 13-hour flight from the United States, I arrived in Beijing starry-eyed, excited, and slightly jet-lagged.
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Stuart Beaton

Add spice to your life with sausages

"Do you want to learn to make sausages?"
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Erik Nilsson

When modern rock meets ancient guitar

When foreign friends see it, they ask, "What is it?"
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Sandra Lee

My road to becoming an armchair sports fan

As a kid, I played basketball and baseball, which are the only sports I understand. Baseball became boring and basketball is now a game for spoiled, overpaid, vulgar players, so I was no longer interested. That is, until Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets.
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Stuart Beaton

Give us this day our daily bread

"I'd like to learn to make bread, can you teach me?" asked my neighbor.
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Nadine Hudson

Hounding a vet for answers to our dog's problem

A dull street lamp vaguely lights us from above. Dust is flying through the air.
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Lisa Carducci

Measuring up to learning Chinese

The response of Chinese on learning their foreign friends are learning Chinese, is almost invariably - "Learning Chinese is very difficult."
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Stuart Beaton

What's your poison?

The word ganbei makes me want to run for the hills.
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Gan Tian

Thief's serial mistakes end with me getting phone back

I was in Guomao subway station listening to a Mariah Carey song on my iPhone when the music suddenly stopped.
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