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David Spindler and the Great Wall

This week, tens of thousands of people will be reading Peter Hessler's New Yorker article on David Spindler and his Great Wall project. Here I offer a brief testament in support of David's work. David and Andrew in a tower on the Chenjiabao... ...full story at Shanghai Journal

from Shanghai Journal on Wed, May 16 2007

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