An Expat in China
By brian salter
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What’s life really like as an Expatriate? More specifically, what’s it like to live and work in China? As I am asked regularly about my 7 years in China, I decided to draw on blogs and articles that I wrote, not to mention a guide book about Beijing*, to put together a series of podcasts all about what life is really like there. Please feel free to give feedback or ask any questions. New episodes will be added every day.
*An Englishman in Beijing by Brian Salter
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Ep 91: Ink stamps, Concubines and a Chinese Parrot - Ji Xiaolan's Residence
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May 29, 2026 |
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Ep 90: A Feast for the Eyes as well as the Stomach... Shanxi or Shaanxi Cuisine?
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May 28, 2026 |
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Ep 89: Want a prescription? Try the Dentist!
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May 27, 2026 |
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Ep 88: Pounding the mountains for a slice of history - Discovering Cuandixia
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May 26, 2026 |
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Ep 87: Why Bother with the National Museum?
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May 25, 2026 |
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Ep 86: Discovering yet Another Chinese Invention - China Printing Museum
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May 24, 2026 |
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Ep 85: Better than watching paint dry? Agricultural Exhibition Centre
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May 23, 2026 |
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Ep 84: Red Dreams in Beijing's Da Guan Yuan
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May 22, 2026 |
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Ep 83: Who is mad enough to go to an outdoor museum when it's minus 16 degrees?
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May 21, 2026 |
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Ep 82: Strutting the flesh on a cold winter’s day at Beijing's newest dance studio
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May 20, 2026 |
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Ep 81: Coming Face to Face with a Scholar and Thinker - Brush up on your Azerbaijani!
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May 19, 2026 |
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Ep 80:Is Purple the new Black? Inside Zizhuyuan
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May 18, 2026 |
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Ep 79: Beijing's Auto Museum - where the super heroes aren't the best drivers
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May 17, 2026 |
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Ep: Which is more stunning... Nature in Taoranting or Chinglish?
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May 16, 2026 |
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Ep 77: How Come I Am The Only Visitor In the AAM?
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May 15, 2026 |
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Ep 76: A Long-overdue Pilgrimage to Beitang
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May 14, 2026 |
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Ep 75: Following in the Footsteps of the Spermatozoa - A Museum's well kept secret!
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May 13, 2026 |
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Ep 74: Zhongshan and Tian'anmen - two not to be missed venues
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May 12, 2026 |
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Ep 73: In Search of Beijing’s Elusive Bees
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May 11, 2026 |
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Ep 72: Travelling Through Shanghai's Time Tunnel
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May 10, 2026 |
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Ep 71: Shanghai's Jing’an – a Mecca for Leophiles?
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May 09, 2026 |
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Ep 70: Searching for Peace in Shanghai And Eating Lunch Through A Straw
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May 08, 2026 |
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Ep 69: First Visit to Shanghai – But mind what you drink!
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May 07, 2026 |
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Ep 68: Back to Nature AGAIN in Beijing's Botanic Academy
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May 06, 2026 |
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Ep 67: Back to Nature in Beijing's Botanic Garden
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May 05, 2026 |
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Ep 66: Move over Dante! Make way for the 76 departments of the Taoist Pantheon!
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May 04, 2026 |
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Ep 65: Give Peace a Chance? Beijing's anti Japanese aggression museum
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May 03, 2026 |
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Ep 64: Return to Tianjin
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May 02, 2026 |
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Ep 63: Is This What Chinese Heaven Is Like?
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May 01, 2026 |
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Ep 62: Chinese Exercise - The best way to get over a trauma is to meet it head on
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Ep 61: If Confucius had been Catholic, he’d surely be a saint by now!
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Ep 60: Everything about China told in Miniature - Philately Museum
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Ep 59: Playing Peekaboo with the Red Caped Enlightened Ones
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Ep 58: How did Artists Cope in the days before Photoshop?
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Ep 57: Discovering Wu Ta Si’s Stone Carvings Museum
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Ep 56: Breaking in to Peking University
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Ep 55: Tsinghua... Beijing University Theme Park?
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Ep 54: Catching up on Y2K - Beijing's Millennium Monument
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Ep 53: Dazhong (Big Bell) Temple Museum
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Ep 52: So Who Needs Disney? Shijingshan Amusement Park
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Ep51: A Meeting with the Chairman
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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50: In Search of the Flying Watermelon
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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49: A Museum Not Suitable for the Faint of Heart
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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48: Dumplings! – Liaoning Style
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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47: Spare a thought for Beijing’s millions of homeless flies
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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46: The Museum that Wasn’t - Mind you don't sneeze!
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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45: Great Hall of the People ... but is it all that great?
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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44: Time for Another Comeuppance... Brian's been a BAD boy!
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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43: Who turned the heating off?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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42: Who Pinched all the Trains? - Beijing's Other Rail Museum
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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41: Beijing’s Flight of Fancy - Civil Aviation Museum
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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40: The Unkindest Snip of All – Beijing’s Eunuch Museum
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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39: Star Gazing in Beijing
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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38: China through a lens
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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37: A New Marketing Ploy for KFC?
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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36: BeiJing's Tap Water Museum (yes it really does exist!)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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35: Santa Jostles with the Dragon
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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34: Making tracks with Mao
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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33: Toasting the Dragon
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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32: At home with Sung Qing-ling
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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31: The World - sometimes not all it is cracked up to be!
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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30: Xmas in Beijing
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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29: A visit to Prince Gong's Pad
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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28: Exploring the hutong
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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27: Gobbing for China
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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26: Juggling with destiny … or crashing the diplomats’ party
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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25: “I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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24: Summer Palace – Best viewed in autumn
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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23: Being single on 11.11.11
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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22: "Judge not others ..."
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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21: Telling the Time in Beijing
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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20: The Hills are Alive with the Sound of …. Bullshit?
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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19: In search of vintage paint stripper
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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18: Jackie Chan, Chateau Laffitte and a Jar of Penises
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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17: A KGB agent in the National Ballet?
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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16: You don’t have to be a philistine to enjoy 798
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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15: Special Me Is a Suave Dude
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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14: Searching for that Moon Rabbit
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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13 - Patience has its rewards
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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12 - It's Lotus Time in YuanMingYuan
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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11 - Brian Sprints his way around Olympics-ville
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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10 - Beijing's Fierce Creatures
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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09 - Overcoming the Pain Barrier
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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08 - Following in Nixon's Footsteps
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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07 - A Transport of Delight
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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06 - Window on the world
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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05 - An Amazing Day Out in Tianjin
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Start of a new chapter in Brian’s autobiography
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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China Visa Red Tape
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Beijing Tarts: Over the Hill at 30
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Flying China Southern Airlines
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Introduction
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Oct 05, 2024 |