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My first encounter with Communist China: And I’d thought Wal-Mart in America was cheap!

Written by Jeremy on Thursday, 11 March 2010 — Leave a Comment

Dispatch #2 from Kunming, China Tue 3/19/02 8:46 AM In this Chinese city of 3.3 million, there are few outward signs of communism. On the contrary, Kunming is a grimy, bustling semi-metropolis teeming with commerce. It has more in common with what I expected to find, and did find, in Hong Kong than with what [...]

Posted in Travel writing: the fun stuff | Also tagged China, Hong Kong, Kunming

Heat Treatment ’02: Revisiting the travel writing that started it all

Written by Jeremy on Thursday, 11 March 2010 — Leave a Comment

In 2002, just before coming to England to do my MBA at Oxford, I burned up three and a half months by taking the most extraordinary journey I may ever take. And writing about it.

Posted in Travel writing: the fun stuff | Also tagged Auckland, Bangkok, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Hong Kong, Kunming, Los Angeles, Macau, Mandalay, Manihiki, Myanmar, New Zealand, Phnom Penh, Pukapuka, Rangoon, Rarotonga, Siem Reap, Singapore, Suwarrow, Sydney, Tasmania, Thailand, Yangon

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My first encounter with Communist China: And I’d thought Wal-Mart in America was cheap!

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