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Happy National Day, China

By Cankles | Published: September 30, 2009
Today is the start of a week’s holiday in China to celebrate 60 years of the People’s Republic of China and the Autumn Festival, collectively known as Golden Week. Expect fireworks. Expect parades. And expect to eat moon cakes. For those in China, you’ll hear many people saying “Guó qìng jié kuai le” which pretty [...]
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National Day photo exhibition

By Cankles | Published: September 28, 2009
To mark 60 years of the People’s Republic of China the Shanghai Exhibition Center is showing off some of the nation’s triumphs in photo form. We accidentally came across the show while taking a shortcut though the exhibition centre grounds – many locals were lining up to get in which is usually a tell-tale sign [...]
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