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Puff the Magic Dragon

Friday, 25 September 2009 11:20 P GMT+08

Liuzhou hasn't hung back in its recently announced promise to exploit the river to develop tourism.

In past years, school kids across China have been given the usual holidays - summer, spring festival etc. Then they were ordered to attend compulsory make up lessons, tutoring sessions etc., meaning they didn't get a break at all......

san ba games

Sunday, 8 March 2009 7:36 P GMT+08

Today is International Women's Day (san ba, for short). Yesterday, somewhat bizarrely, I was invited to join one group to help them celebrate.

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Over

Tuesday, 10 February 2009 9:00 P GMT+08

Well, that's it over. Thank God!

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Shine a Light

Monday, 9 February 2009 11:54 A GMT+08

Today, the 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the day of the Lantern Festival marking the end of the Spring Festival for this year. It feels really odd as it is very warm. Last year at this time, we were freezing.I should have known better, but I too

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Happy Niu Year

Monday, 26 January 2009 10:49 P GMT+08

Happy Niu Year!

Liuzhou Museum

Friday, 16 January 2009 2:42 P GMT+08

Holidays are here and lots of time to fill. One suggestion. Liuzhou Museum

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slow train comin'

Monday, 12 January 2009 3:40 P GMT+08

As a follow-up to my post yesterday, here is a picture from the local rag showing part of the line to buy tickets at Liuzhou railway station, yesterday.

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It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

Sunday, 11 January 2009 9:35 A GMT+08

Normally this weekend would be considered to be the beginning of what has been described as the greatest mass movement of humanity in world history.

UN Recommended Nonsense

Thursday, 1 May 2008 3:36 P GMT+08

China does not have any direct equivalent to the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency or similar organisations in other countries. That is not to say that that there are no regulations. There are. For example, the more ridiculous advertisements on nati

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Seeing the Light

Friday, 22 February 2008 2:23 P GMT+08

Last night was the Lantern Festival which is held on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar and which marks the end of the Spring Festival. I took myself off out in the evening.

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Bucket Kicking Obelisk

Saturday, 9 February 2008 1:33 P GMT+08

A few weeks ago, the locals erected this obelisk in the least visited part of Liuzhou's pedestrian street. It depicts various scenes from what is meant to be the city's history.

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Happy New Year!

Thursday, 7 February 2008 1:13 P GMT+08

Xin Nian Kuai Le!

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New Year's Eve Dinner

Wednesday, 6 February 2008 10:30 P GMT+08

New Year's Eve Dinner

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Good Luck Bras

Wednesday, 6 February 2008 4:29 P GMT+08

It's New Year's Eve. My neighbours are busy cleaning and preparing food. Or hanging up their red good luck door decorations. Either that or having showers. It is forbidden to wash tomorrow. You would be washing away your good luck.

Singing, Dreaming, Empathetic Rats!

Tuesday, 5 February 2008 8:32 P GMT+08

Here we are a couple of days away from the Year of the Rat. My friends and neighbours are busy cleaning their houses and hanging up good luck stuff. In the meantime, the crazies are coming out.

Rat Banquet

Saturday, 2 February 2008 3:03 P GMT+08

Last night, Liuzhou government held a reception to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year - The Year of the Rat. I managed to infiltrate the proceedings.

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Hot air in Freezing China

Friday, 1 February 2008 4:58 P GMT+08

The whole country is paralysed by the worst weather in 50+ years. Half a million people trapped in one railway station. Millions more elsewhere. But don't worry. The Premier, Wen Jiabao has it all sorted.

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Travel Disaster

Monday, 28 January 2008 2:25 P GMT+08

I’m sorry to go on about this, but it is cold. I’m told that this is Guangxi’s coldest winter since 1951. I wasn’t around then. I didn’t exist. So I have to believe them.

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Yawn

Sunday, 27 January 2008 4:52 P GMT+08

Random Photograph No. 7

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Winterlude

Saturday, 26 January 2008 9:50 P GMT+08

It could get quiet round this blog for the next week or three. There are various reasons for this.

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so far away from home

Thursday, 24 January 2008 11:51 A GMT+08

As ever at this time of year, China is on the move or about to be.

"It must be a holiday, there's nobody around"

Saturday, 10 November 2007 9:28 A GMT+08

"It must be a holiday, there's nobody around," sings Dylan in "Highlands". He clearly wasn't thinking about China. Here holidays mean everyone is around. The whole place is chaos. It is best to hide away at home. But it looks like we are having a

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Liuzhou Roast Duck

Sunday, 7 October 2007 11:47 A GMT+08

There are many favourite local duck recipes and dishes. Beer duck is a local favourite, for example. And duck hotpot is popular in the winter. I have even been known to make the occasional duck dish myself.

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Never ending or beginning, on an ever spinning wheel as the images unwind

Friday, 5 October 2007 1:02 P GMT+08

In order to keep the locals amused during the holiday week, Liuzhou has organised a "Windmill "Festival".

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