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Written on leaving China...

You brought your Bibles and printed tracts To a land that God has no heaven in, For Tao, Confucious and Buddha, here Had prior claims to the heart..

An attempt to write in Chinglish - the Chinese idea of English, which is sometimes extremely poetic, and sometimes very beautiful.

I had a fright the other night, I dreamt that I was ill, The Angels fluttered round my bed, They said: ‘Now you be still!’ My heart be..

I’ve watched your children, playing in the sand, Pretty little girls with a yellow hair-band, Cheeky little boys with their snub-nosed faces, ..

Divorce is becoming more common in modern China.

The official name of the Beijing Dialect.

They squeak and rattle, and jerk and pull And throw you across the floor, The double-deckers, the number 5’s, The 3’s and the 64, They..

Based on a newspaper article in China.

Written for my Chinese students, who never quite got the idea of past, present, future.