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Journey to Ningxia: The Grey Hair’s Song

24 September 2009 | Comment
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Morning “I stayed up all night praying.  Didn’t sleep at all,” Paul says to me when we meet in the hotel lobby in the morning.  He seems wide awake and full of energy. “You prayed all night?”  I ask him. “All night,” he says.  “And you know what…” he pauses, “a miracle happened…My friend asked me to pray [...]

Journey to Ningxia: Onward to Inner Mongolia

5 September 2009 | Comment
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Devil Monkey sits outside of the bus station.  He wears the same camaflouge outfit that I saw him in the first time that I encountered him on the streets of Zhongwei.  One of his monkeys rests on his shoulder while the other two sit on the ground, their heads perked up.  It seems that we’re traveling [...]

Hai Yuan: Journey to Ningxia, A Thousand Songs of Hua Er

29 August 2009 | 2 comments
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Dinner and Sunset “We should have some ‘bao zi’ to eat.  They’re pretty good in the restaurant beneath the hotel,” Mr. Ma tells me, rubbing his stomach. I’ve had plenty of “bao zi” during my almost 4 years in China.  It’s a kind of steamed bun filled with pork, beef, or vegetables.  The bao zi in the [...]

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