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Little Pasture on the Prairie Last week marked the Lunar New Year, a holiday celebrated so ubiquitously in China that is sometimes simply called Chinese New Year. This week also marks the 25th anniversary of my arrival in Shanghai, China to begin a semester abroad. I didn’t know about the Lunar New Year then, or much of anything about China, honestly, but I was young and naive, and consequently…