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Fanta-stic Names

liuzhou — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:29:00 GMT

Chinese people?s names are endlessly interesting.

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Ignore Foreign Languages

liuzhou — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:12:00 GMT

They love their red banners round here. As I've mentioned before, everywhere you go you can see long thin red banners full of propaganda and other nonsense. No one notices them any more. If they ever did. But this one caught my eye.

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Zhuang Banner

liuzhou — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:44:00 GMT

Liuzhou is in Guangxi. Although Guangxi is often referred to as a 'province', technically it isn't. The official name is Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. This is because this is home to China’s largest ethnic minority, the Zhuang people.

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Snail writing fire

liuzhou — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:11:00 GMT

Only days after telling you of the record number of fires breaking out around Liuzhou, I spot yet another. This one is more interesting from a gastronomic and a linguistic viewpoint, however.

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Flying Chinamen

liuzhou — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:32:00 GMT

According to my local newspaper, the lads in the Liuzhou branch of the People’s Liberation Army are learning some new skills. There seems to be a shortage of aircraft at the moment, so instead they are learning to fly under their own power.

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Speaking in Tongues

liuzhou — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 09:21:00 GMT

Among the many pleasures of life in Liuzhou is the endless opportunity to be baffled in a variety of languages. I really don't know how many different languages are spoken around here, but a good illustration came the other night when there was a lar

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