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Final Arrangements in Old China

          Life in old China could certainly be trying, but then it didn't end with death, or at least you didn't believe so. Depending where you were on the Daoist/Buddhist belief matrix, death was either a ticket to... ...full story at China Expat

from China Expat on Sun, Aug 23 2009

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