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BAD CHINESE, BAD CANADIAN I'm halfway through my third stay in China and loving every minute of it. Tomorrow I travel to Chongqing. It'll be the seventh big city in China I've seen. My friend Li Fan is here. He asks me: "Where have you been in China?" I answer him, in chronological order: Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Chongqing. He laughs. Li Fan is a bad Chinese. He's been to fewer provinces in his own country than I have. I laugh too. I count the number of places I've been in Canada, then I stop laughing. Murray James is a bad Canadian. He's visited more provinces in China than he has in his own country. -murrayjames 03/18/09 |