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Thu 11 Nov 2002On a slowboat in China on our way down the YangtzeCHINA: It is impossible to squash three weeks of being in China - Beijing, Xian, Chenghu, Emei Shan, Chongquin, the Yangtze River, Yichang, Yangshuo and Hong Kong - into one article.Three weeks of appalling smog, of spitting and hocking, of menus with names like Braised Turtle with Eight Treasures and Fried Duck's Mouth with Soya, of the Great Wall like a bright wishbone across the Mongolian mountains, of pagodas and ubiquitous Mao pictures and noise and crowds and touts and the endless trains that clatter through the night, uniting the entire country.