Pre-blog blog entry
Jan. 29th, 1999 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
artemisdartMy 6 months teaching English in China are unfortunately over, but I must look on the bright side... I have the internet again!
Imagine my surprise when I settled down into an armchair with a nice book (Robert van Gulik's The Chinese Gold Murders, which I haven't read for years) and discovered that the book was set in the very town in which I taught English for 4 months! Yes, The Chinese Gold Murders is set in the port city of Peng-lai, in "Shantung" province (the old transliteration of Shandong), in the year 663. There's a map and everything.
Imagine my surprise when I settled down into an armchair with a nice book (Robert van Gulik's The Chinese Gold Murders, which I haven't read for years) and discovered that the book was set in the very town in which I taught English for 4 months! Yes, The Chinese Gold Murders is set in the port city of Peng-lai, in "Shantung" province (the old transliteration of Shandong), in the year 663. There's a map and everything.
