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Category Archives: Books
Our Daughter Hits Shanghai
It was over a year before our daughter Rosalind made it out to see us in Shanghai. For the first half of our first year that we had been living as expats in China Rozy had been doing her final … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Changning, Independent Shop, People's Square
Tagged Books, children, education, mandarin, oxford
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A Year’s Worth Of Books
Followers of this blog will know that I have not written for a long time. Below is the last blog post I wrote, but never published. It will go some way to explain why I walked away from writing online about … Continue reading
Pearls From The Orient 