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But, I'm A Real Boy!

Ok so I realise that I've not contributed to ZNH for a little while (there's a variety of reasons for this - but I'll not bore you) and every now and again something passes my desk, or is whispered in... ...full story at Zhongnanhai

from Zhongnanhai on Thu, May 08 2008

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11 Oct 07 visit China: Freak rain floods Hangzhou  »  Global Voices Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province is home to the Qiantang River, which each year plays host to the world's largest tidal bore; large enough that it occasionally washes bore-watchers away when it comes. This year's bore has come and...
20 Jul 07 visit Why Do People Think That A Fake News Story Is Real?  »  ESWN A couple of reasons why some netizens still think that the Beijing cardboard buns were real.
02 Jul 08 visit Bubble half empty.  »  Shanghai Scrap Tied up today and tomorrow with a couple of real writing matters, but I wanted to get to this before it passes me by … A few weeks ago I ran into a friend of mine who runs a very successful Shanghai residential real estate brokerage that she started...
15 Jul 08 visit On to the EastNorth  »  Ben's Blog Well, it's been a rather hectic last two days due to work-related reasons I have no need to bore you with on this blog. But the good news is early tomorrow morning (very early tomorrow morning) I am finally going to get out of Beijing for my first...
13 Oct 09 visit Festival of links, part 1  »  James Fallows Before an impending "real," as opposed to false-alarm, absence from this site for a while, because of impending "real" writing, a variety of links about things I've meant to mention. Two now, two or three later in the day.- Everyone on the China-media...

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