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Great post Kaiser. As someone who recently returned to the US after 8 years in Shanghai (and 2 decades before that in Taipei), your letter was poetry to my ears, albeit with a strong Beijing kouyin. I am also scheming as to how I can spend half the year in China. For those of us who have spent significant time in country, we realize that beyond the hyperbole (positive or negative) daily life continues and the core factors that attracted us in the first place haven't really changed.

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