CHINA
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“Love the food, hate the government”
I arrived in China in May 2013 and left August 2020. I taught English for awhile, did my master’s of politics & foreign policy at Tsinghua University, worked for a year at China Today, and then two years at Xinhua News Agency. I spent most of my time in Beijing, but also traveled to Shanghai, Wuhan, Inner Mongolia, Shenzhen, Panjin, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xi’an, Sanya, Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Hold it...
I don’t know how to spell it in Chinese Characters nor Pinyin, but I learned ‘Go Pee’ today which means 'Bullshit’. It was quite usefull this morning after I saw a street merchant type in 10 yen for a kilo of bananas, look at me, then change it to 30. “Go Pee” I say as he soon changes it back to 10 yen and grudgingly hands me my banana. Served.