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But I have to be Beautiful (& don’t Care what You Look Like)

Frank Hossack -
Showing off one’s self in the best possible light is a natural human attribute. But, just as with everything else, in China that concept is taken to new levels. Political correctness be damned; body pride is the way to...
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My Big Fat Kuaidi Wedding

Samuel Wilson -
Chinese weddings are no meagre affair. Copious amounts of food, baijiu, the colour red filled the wedding venue; lest we forget the guests themselves. With this “姐” (“jie”; sister) and that “哥” (“ge”; brother) all staring at the grinning...
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Where Did All Our Time Go? A Kuaidi Kween Komments

Triona Ryan -
A kettle sits in my front garden, inside a wedge of polystyrene in a cardboard box. I know for sure it is a kettle, because I justbought a new one. On Taobao.  The piercing whistle of the old one has...
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The Velda Delivery; House 9, 1st Av., Unity St., Torrent City

Rhoda -
Stephanie read the address out loud, hoping that this time, it would ring a bell. Sadly, just like every time before now, she came up blank. In her almost fifteen years of being a delivery person, she had never...
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Maps & Boundaries; The Greatest Human Fictions

Triona Ryan -
Alexander Von Humboldt. Carl Ritter. Alfred Russel Wallace. Paul Vidal de La Blache. Jared Diamond. Yifu Tuan. David Harvey. Milton Santos.  All of these geographers spent the greater part of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, hopping about the planet,...
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Phonology VS Geography; We are Where We Come from

Samuel Wilson -
I admit it, I’m a bit of a language nerd. One of my friends and a previous colleague of mine often sends me language memes and I get quite passionate in teaching my A-Level English Language class. In that...
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Finless Porpoise Protection Helps Angel to Keep on Smiling

Emma Schneider -
You may be tired of hearing it on the news, every time you press the remote control. Climate change is a serious issue that has been plaguing our society for decades; its effects adding massive levels of greenhouse gases...
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Geopoetics’ Standpoint on Sustainability

Nic Gibson -
As an English teacher, I have to fight my natural urge to mock and demean geography, at least as a school subject.  It is all too easy to dismiss it as “colouring in maps” and quizzes about flags, (although I...
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