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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Guangzhou, China by TravelPod blogger Leon323 titled “The good earth” Leon323′s travel blog entry: “The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck was a book read at the insistence of my mother at a young age and gave me the desire for years to want to come to China. Taiwan is China, HK is China, Macau is China….but this is as far as I have known, the real china. The red, communist china colliding with the 21st century attempt at free enterprise. The capitalist hub from Shenzen to here where much of the western world gets its products. Clothes,computers, shoes, toys tea, rice and just about everything else found at Walmart comes from china and much is shipped from here. These people smoke like chimneys with a three pack a day average habit, so Phillip Morris is doing quite well here thankyou. McDonald’s has stores on almost every corner and they sell basically the same things as home, except for a soup and noodle dish. They are hugely succesful here as people often go there for birthday’s and other special occasions. This is an area of stark contrasts: People move things around by bike handtruck and wheelbarrow, which were invented here centuries ago. Meanwhile there are modern shopping areas selling western goods, with brandnames unknown at home. This is a place that despite census figures not accurate, has 14 million people in the metroplitan area. this is a place that 10 years ago had the worst pollution I have ever seen, from …
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