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“... the very appearance of the word ‘‘oriental’’ as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers alarm bells for any American academic. The late Edward Said’s Orientalism argued that the word ‘‘o...”
“And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.”
“No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day for slave wages when you can get rich on your back?”
“Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.”
“I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.”
“As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed ...”
“Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.”
