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Cabin Fever in China

For the past month and a half, I’ve been staying with my new parents-in-law in what amounts to small town China. After getting legally married and applying for a visiting relatives visa, we decided to hang around for a little while. Pretty easy to... ...full story at The China Expat

from The China Expat on Mon, Aug 04 2008

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