Background: For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, his successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight.
July 18th 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park (Kwesi saved these pictures before we left!)
It's smokey. Hard to believe we are in a giant internet cafe with a whole bunch of smokers, but that is life!
We arrived yesterday afternoon. It's ... 5 photos[full story]
June 23rd 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park This next week is gonna be packed so a quick bullet -style rundown of the past few days, otherwise they'd be lost in the hiatus.
Rest of Thursday was us running around and forming study groups and ... [full story]
June 18th 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park Greetings ~ It is currently 6:00am Thursday - China time, 6:00pm Wednesday - Buckeye time.
Yesterday was another busy day. For the first half, the kids were in class. We all started with a Kungfu ... 7 photos[full story]
June 4th 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park
Bei genauer Retrospektive meines Schaffens auf dieser Homepage ist mir soeben aufgefallen, dass mein erster Blog aus China bereits 109 Tage zurückliegt und damit die Halbzeit überschritten und kei ... [full story]
March 29th 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park We began our 20 days tour through China in Hong Kong. We arrived a day before our tour started and spent a night at Guodadong Guesthouse in the infamous Chungkung Mansions. Our room was ultra compact ... 26 photos[full story]
April 22nd 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park We arrived in China. China was great, China has chopsticks like Japan but they drive on different sides of the road.
While in Beijing we went to The Great Wall Of China, we walked along it for a c ... 4 photos[full story]
April 16th 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park Our first impression of Beijing was the new airport (only opened last week) and the sheer size of it all.
We stayed in the middle of town in the Ma-or hutong, only a short distance from the ... [full story]
March 17th 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park Kedves Mindenki!
Zsófi ír. Először is egy közérdekű közlemény: a yahoo-s email címemet nem mindig tudom megnyitni (nem, nem az Internet hibája, nem is a yahoo-é, szerintem mindannyian sej ... 13 photos[full story]
February 15th 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park JINGSHAN PARK
After Me (Renata) pre-explored this park we have both returned here. Here we saw so far the most beautiful Buddha - "Vairocana = Universal Brightness = Buddha of five directions".
As w ... [full story]
January 22nd 2008Asia » China » Beijing » Beihai Park Today I was taught the word for "crazy" in Mandarin. I said I wouldn't forget it, and was told to take a good look at myself if I did. I forgot it already, but that is aside from the point. In my opin ... [full story]
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