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Category Archives: china

20 hours in Shanghai, 1 in Kings Cross

19 Jun

Parallel to East Nanjing Road, five hundred metres west of the southbound bend where Su Zhou Creek meets Shanghai’s Huang Pu River, is an upstreet precinct where I spent what was meant to be my last night in China. We … Read More »

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1962, year of the Cuba Missile Crisis. A boy from Minnesota is in Greenwich Village, New York, Talking World War III Blues

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