I have the middle seat on a 17-hour train to Changsha, Hunan, my ancestral province.
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It’s actually not that bad when it’s still grey.
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Changsha is the capital of my ancestral province, Hunan, the site of many major battles during the Sino-Japanese War and where Mao Zedong converted to Communism.
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It was horrible to behold. It is as if he’s given his entire being into every sob, his body alternating between violent convulsions and reflective silence.
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Several attempts at conducting a CAT scan while subject was comatose have failed. Technicians cite power surges as the cause of failure in each of the attempts and are currently in the process of repairing the CAT scanner. Without the tomographic images available, we cannot medically analyze his brain.
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It’s a state of constant shock.
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Chengdu has been a wild ride. The job I thought I had lined up for me was a bust. They wanted a more “foreign” looking teacher. As racist as it is, it felt kind of nice, like a slap in the face to wake me up.
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Nanjing, Jiangsu, China- Doctors at Gulou Hospital are mystified in the curious case of a man found unconscious a week ago in the plum blossom gardens of Sun Yat Sen Mausoleum, who awoke three days ago with no memory of his past, speaking only in an unintelligible dialect of Chinese, and exhibiting bouts of violent weeping.
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