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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.



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September 5th 2008  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
Hello and thank you for all the wonderful support I've been recieving about my blog. It is quite interesting to me that for the duration of the year that I kept a blog in Japan, I only once recieved ... [full story]

August 31st 2008  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
It was a long journey to reach Yangshuo involving an overnight train ride that stretched from the far northern reaches of China down to the tropical south, and then a 2 hour bus ride until I arrived i ... [full story]

Yangshuo
27 days ago: ADB published a blog
Yangshuo
June 25th 2008  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
Caught a cruiseboat down the Li River as a way to get to the next place. Extraordinary landscape of Karst formations like a crowd of sentinels standing guard over forbidden territory. They were so den ... 7 photos [full story]

Yangshou, Guanxi, China 15/06/08 to 17/06/08
June 17th 2008  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
The Karst hotel was strangely empty. I asked for a dorm room. The whole time I was in Yangshou in the Karst hotel I had this dorm room to myself. When I arrived the lady (Lilly) who rang the guesthous ... 33 photos [full story]

36 days ago: nadsjd published a blog
Day 9
August 2nd 2008  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
Road to Beijing Day 9! (James clearly can't be trusted to write this as yesterday, last entry, was actually day 8) Li River cruise was amazing, 4hrs on the river through very similar landscapes yet ... [full story]

July 29th 2008  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
The tunic suit has dominated Chinese fashion for many years and is known to Westerners as the "Mao tunic" or "Mao suit". It is a mistake, however, to associate the style with Mao Zedong. For it i ... [full story]

43 days ago: halfling published a blog
Living in a Hilly Paradise
July 21st 2008  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
I came out with 7 JiaoTong University kids to YangShuo (阳朔). A reflection on my time in what is reportedly the most beautiful area in China... I arrived in YangShuo via a Li River cru ... [full story]

They had us in stitches!
48 days ago: JulieandAlex published a blog
They had us in stitches!
July 15th 2008  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
As dark rain clouds gathered , Alex ascended the first route up the steep cliff. His muscular, manly fingers gripped the sharp edge of the limestone karst cliff as he gazed up, up up......"Only 22 ... 36 photos [full story]

Charming town of Yangshou - Guangxi Province
November 17th 2007  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
OOOZING WITH CHARM.. I end up staying for a week it was that beautiful, I cant imagine I am going to come across anything like this again, the village is like something from a storybook... just magi ... 52 photos [full story]

What the hell...?
68 days ago: ADB published a blog
What the hell...?
June 26th 2008  Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo
Sign standing outside a restaurant in Yangshuo. Mmmmmm...tasty. ... 1 photos [full story]


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