Such is life in Beijing

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  • Published 20120605
  • ISBN: 9781921922534
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

SUNDAY, 3 APRIL 2011: Crossing the Hay Plain at 30,000 feet.

Underway at last! I didn’t sleep well last night. In part it was the normal anxiety that precedes international travel, exaggerated by the fact that I haven’t been overseas for years and that this is my first trip to China –a country so big as to be almost inconceivable.

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