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An Expat in China — 76 episodes

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Ep 75: Following in the Footsteps of the Spermatozoa - A Museum's well kept secret!

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Ep 74: Zhongshan and Tian'anmen - two not to be missed venues

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Ep 73: In Search of Beijing’s Elusive Bees

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Ep 72: Travelling Through Shanghai's Time Tunnel

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Ep 71: Shanghai's Jing’an – a Mecca for Leophiles?

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Ep 70: Searching for Peace in Shanghai And Eating Lunch Through A Straw

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Ep 69: First Visit to Shanghai – But mind what you drink!

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Ep 68: Back to Nature AGAIN in Beijing's Botanic Academy

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Ep 67: Back to Nature in Beijing's Botanic Garden

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Ep 66: Move over Dante! Make way for the 76 departments of the Taoist Pantheon!

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Ep 65: Give Peace a Chance? Beijing's anti Japanese aggression museum

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Ep 64: Return to Tianjin

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Ep 63: Is This What Chinese Heaven Is Like?

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Ep 62: Chinese Exercise - The best way to get over a trauma is to meet it head on

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Ep 61: If Confucius had been Catholic, he’d surely be a saint by now!

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Ep 60: Everything about China told in Miniature - Philately Museum

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Ep 59: Playing Peekaboo with the Red Caped Enlightened Ones

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Ep 58: How did Artists Cope in the days before Photoshop?

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Ep 57: Discovering Wu Ta Si’s Stone Carvings Museum

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Ep 56: Breaking in to Peking University

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Ep 55: Tsinghua... Beijing University Theme Park?

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Ep 54: Catching up on Y2K - Beijing's Millennium Monument

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Ep 53: Dazhong (Big Bell) Temple Museum

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Ep 52: So Who Needs Disney? Shijingshan Amusement Park

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Ep51: A Meeting with the Chairman

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50: In Search of the Flying Watermelon

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49: A Museum Not Suitable for the Faint of Heart

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48: Dumplings! – Liaoning Style

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47: Spare a thought for Beijing’s millions of homeless flies

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46: The Museum that Wasn’t - Mind you don't sneeze!

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45: Great Hall of the People ... but is it all that great?

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44: Time for Another Comeuppance... Brian's been a BAD boy!

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43: Who turned the heating off?

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42: Who Pinched all the Trains? - Beijing's Other Rail Museum

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41: Beijing’s Flight of Fancy - Civil Aviation Museum

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40: The Unkindest Snip of All – Beijing’s Eunuch Museum

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39: Star Gazing in Beijing

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38: China through a lens

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37: A New Marketing Ploy for KFC?

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36: BeiJing's Tap Water Museum (yes it really does exist!)

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35: Santa Jostles with the Dragon

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34: Making tracks with Mao

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33: Toasting the Dragon

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32: At home with Sung Qing-ling

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31: The World - sometimes not all it is cracked up to be!

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30: Xmas in Beijing

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29: A visit to Prince Gong's Pad

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28: Exploring the hutong

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27: Gobbing for China

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26: Juggling with destiny … or crashing the diplomats’ party

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25: “I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”

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24: Summer Palace – Best viewed in autumn

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23: Being single on 11.11.11

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22: "Judge not others ..."

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21: Telling the Time in Beijing

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20: The Hills are Alive with the Sound of …. Bullshit?

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19: In search of vintage paint stripper

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18: Jackie Chan, Chateau Laffitte and a Jar of Penises

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17: A KGB agent in the National Ballet?

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16: You don’t have to be a philistine to enjoy 798

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15: Special Me Is a Suave Dude

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14: Searching for that Moon Rabbit

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13 - Patience has its rewards

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12 - It's Lotus Time in YuanMingYuan

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11 - Brian Sprints his way around Olympics-ville

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10 - Beijing's Fierce Creatures

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09 - Overcoming the Pain Barrier

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08 - Following in Nixon's Footsteps

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07 - A Transport of Delight

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06 - Window on the world

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05 - An Amazing Day Out in Tianjin

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Start of a new chapter in Brian’s autobiography

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China Visa Red Tape

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Beijing Tarts: Over the Hill at 30

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Flying China Southern Airlines

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Introduction