In the yards scattered around Kaohsiung harbor they still build junks for the fishing fleets that are direct, recognizable descendants of the ships that formed Cheng Ho’s armadas. You can take a short ferry ride from the shipbreakers’ piers, where vessels of modern vintage are being put to death, to places, such as Chichin Island, where junks of the ancient lineage are being given birth.

On a 1/8th scale onroad car we would run -1 on front tires and -3 on rear tires.

Since noon she's been working at full throttle on the calculations.

This basin of Szechuan (literally Four Streams, but which, reading the character idiographically, I should be inclined to render as Gridironed by Streams), […]