She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt.

The boys' swimming-hole was nearly a mile from town, it was a secluded spot — Blue Lick running close to the side of the hill, with massive rocks jutting out from its rugged front, and forming almost a canopy over the swimming-hole.

To accommodate a fast growing urban population, real estate developers favor tall, rectangular, concrete apartment buildings over traditional Chinese architectures. The buildings in northern cities no longer look distinguishable from buildings in southern cities. Revisiting those diverse architectural motifs serves as a reminder of how diverse China proper really is.…East of the thick red lines is a rough definition of China proper (Lin et al., 2015)

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