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Written on leaving China...
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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..
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An attempt to write in Chinglish - the Chinese idea of English, which is sometimes extremely poetic, and sometimes very beautiful.
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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..
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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,
..
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Divorce is becoming more common in modern China.
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The official name of the Beijing Dialect.
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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..
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Based on a newspaper article in China.
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Written for my Chinese students, who never quite got the idea of past, present, future.
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