David Tang

Diary – 9 February 2008

David Tang reflects on the storms in China, and on being 'Googled'

issue 09 February 2008

David Tang reflects on the storms in China, and on being ‘Googled’

My daughter telephoned to say, to my disbelief, that she was snowbound in Hangzhou, where it never snows. The city is regarded as the most beautiful in China, with swaying willows surrounding an old lagoon on the edge of which Mao Tse-tung loved staying.

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