Tag: Beijing
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Thirty Years from Tienanmen Square
June 4, 2019 marks the thirty year anniversary of a dark day in Chinese history – what is known in the west as The Tienanmen Square Massacre. I remember this day very well. I had just graduated from college a month before. I had just gotten married a week after college graduation. We were in…
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A Chinese Reminder of a 2016 Presidential Candidate
I was showing my class a Discovery video about China’s transformation prior to the Beijing Olympics. I’ve shown this for several years now as it’s a great video to help understand the turmoil China went through in order to emerge as a 21st century powerhouse. One section of the video always produces some laughs. It…
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My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #4 – Beijing, China
My first trip to Beijing was in the summer of 1992 as I flew to Asia for the first time to teach in a summer English course in the northeastern city of Dalian. We were fortunate to stop-over in Beijing during both ways of our trip. The Beijing of 1992 is certainly a far cry…
Author Mark W Sasse 