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China really <I>likes</I> Christmas. It makes for some odd bedfellows.

This is Ping Gong, one of my hosts and my fellow traveler. At breakfast this morning, he explained to me how he became an audiophile. "It was the Cultural Revolution," he said. "We weren't allowed to study, so we played music and talked. I had a big Russian turntable&mdash;mono! And one speaker, of course.

The view outside my window. "What river is that?" I asked Ping Gong.

Mistress Bagheera don't want no human cooties, oh no.

Lots of goodies here worth investigating.

If you were to do a Google image search on my work at <i>Stereophile</i>, you'd see that, basically, my days are simply filled with reading, writing, coordinating, and planning. No two consecutive days, however, are the same.