In the market close to my home, my wife and I have found some honest providers for our daily lives. For tropical fruits, we go to a couple from Inner Mongolia; for rice, we visit an auntie from Shanxi; for tea, the store of Miss Flower; for carp and catfish, a "Fish Professor" wearing bookish glasses.
Do you know your A, B, C and Ds of the Chinese dating game? And do you also know that many foreigner faces look a bit like squashed teapot?
David Lu likens his story to that of Jean Valjean, the hardened convict-turned-saint of French author Victor Hugo's masterpiece Les Miserables. And indeed, that classic novel played a small part in Lu's transformation from gangster to priest.
Shennongjia, which maintains the best-reserved subtropical forest ecological system among areas located on the same latitude worldwide, has developed into a popular tourist destination due to its verdant forests, diverse species and countless natural mysteries.
Jingpo Lake, located in between mountains south of the city of Mudanjiang, in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, is hailed as the "West Lake of North China".
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