Artist and writer from Norway. Spending most of my time globetrotting. Core areas: ex-Soviet and Middle East. Currently located in Beijing, being very busy with wushu - kung fu and improving my mandaring... full info
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. A...more info