http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/china/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/china/comment-page-1/#comment-46323 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:39:33 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=13111#comment-46323 I’m planning to mountain bike the Great Wall.

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/china/comment-page-1/#comment-46299 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:19:54 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=13111#comment-46299 I suppose I should have posted these before you went, but I\\\\\\’ve always found Chinese culture to be a wellspring of useful memos for all occasions; a few of my favorites-feel free to guide your life by them: 1. Ambition is hardly aided by sitting in a garden waiting for a roast duck to fly into your mouth. 2. The wise man does not attack the Great Wall armed only with a spoon. Last, and possibly most profound: Fear not Heaven, fear not Earth, but be wise in the fear of the Cantonese…

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