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  • We finished the last bottle of water as the hour hand pointed to five. Five am. Luo Shoucheng had just carried the hand drums, which he'd borrowed…

  • There’s something about our China project that’s been bugging me for a while. And I couldn’t really put my finger on in it until one night in…

  • Dec 15, 2005

    Welder for Hire

    In China when you need help with your business or your home, you go down to the labor market to hire somebody. To get a feel for how it works a…

  • Dec 13, 2005

    Essay Test

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  • When I was with our scouting team traveling in Wan Zhou for story about Three gorges Dam relocation of farmers, an environmentalist and an local…

  • I have no return story to tell when it comes to China. Everything was new to me from the minute I walked down the runway and settled in for the 13…

  • The closer this project gets to deadline the more I have to work out, preferably every day to relieve the stress. So I joined my ambitious…

  • It's an intimidating task, being the lone Marketplace correspondent in the world's fastest growing major economy, and its most populous nation….

  • I never thought it would take me this long to get back to China. When we left in ’97 my wife and I were sure we’d be back here living and working…

China 2006