What do I know about China? Honestly, not a whole lot. I don't consistently read or watch the news, so my knowledge of this country is pretty lax. I would guess any knowledge I have about this place is from movies, history channel specials, a few episodes of Bizarre Foods on the travel channel, the very occasional news article, and maybe a little from some video games (Fallout 3 is a reliable source of information right?).

Pictured above: Reliable source of information

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As I've said already, what knowledge I have of China is pretty basic, I can find it on a map, I know Mandarin is the official language there, but there are a bunch of others, Kung Fu originated there, Budhissim is a major religion, and their money looks really weird .

Way too colorful and flowery for my tastes, but the scenery on the backs are really cool

(Image from: me)

I've also heard that Chinese food in china, is much different than Chinese food in America, which is good for when I visit, because while I will eat or drink almost anything once, I can't quite stomach Most Chinese food here.

The one thing that makes all Chinese food tolerable

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Some of my other impressions of China come from conversations. During the Summer I work at Boston University, and many of the Professors and graduate students that I work for are Chinese. They are all really nice people, and talking to them doesn't do anything to disprove the stereotype that Asian people are extremely smart in my opinion.

I really would like to know more about china, their weird mix of being strict, totalitarian communist government while also being a capitalist industrial labor hub baffles me somewhat, and I'd like to know more about how that works (it was cool to read over the summer about Chinese factory workers attempting, and having some small success at unionizing, I don't remember where I read it unfortunately) and I'd also like to know more about their ancient, and modern architecture, I've heard that there are a lot of really cool building projects going on in China now and I would love to learn about that.