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The Chinese Puffin
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divot
(en)
(noun) a square of turf or sod
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The roads were modern but heavily divoted, as if it were understood that they would all be torn up again soon anyway.
on Shanghai
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7 years, 6 months ago
The roads were modern but heavily divoted, as if it were understood that they would all be torn up again soon anyway.
on Shanghai
notable
7 years, 6 months ago
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[...] China in general, in its headlong pursuit of money, with fabulous millionaries and a vast underclass and a dismantled social safety net, and with a central government obsessed with security and skilled at exploiting natonalism to quiet its critics, and with economic and environmental regulation entrusted to incestuous consortia of businesses and local governments, had already been striking me as the most Republican place I'd ever been. [...]
[...] China in general, in its headlong pursuit of money, with fabulous millionaries and a vast underclass and a dismantled social safety net, and with a central government obsessed with security and skilled at exploiting natonalism to quiet its critics, and with economic and environmental regulation entrusted to incestuous consortia of businesses and local governments, had already been striking me as the most Republican place I'd ever been. [...]
montane
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, growing in, or being the biogeographic zone of relatively moist cool upland slopes below timberline dominated by large coniferous trees / (adjective) of, relating to, or made up of montane plants or animals
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nestled between a stricly protected montane forest and the bright-blue freshwater expanses of Dong Qian Hu
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7 years, 6 months ago
nestled between a stricly protected montane forest and the bright-blue freshwater expanses of Dong Qian Hu
uncertain
7 years, 6 months ago