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.
May 7th 2008Asia » China » Guizhou » Anshun Have I ever picked a place out of the blue and left on the first plane I could find...well...would have say no about 10 days ago...and would now say yes and asking for more !
It was one of thos ... 26 photos[full story]
May 13th 2008Asia » China » Guizhou » Kaili Howdy - we'll we've certainly had an action packed couple of days, we're in Kaili in Guizhou province right now (nowhere near any earthquakes if you were wondering) but I'll step back a couple of days ... [full story]
April 9th 2008Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang Wednesday April 9th 2008
I'm sitting writing this entry from Guiyang, I still haven't set off on my trip yet. I spent last week travelling to Nanning to put my passport into the Vietnamese Embass ... 3 photos[full story]
January 19th 2008Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang
From Anshun I took the bus to Guizhou. Too bad there weren’t any stops, some of the sights where amazing. Especially the frozen rice fields. Usually when we think of rice fields the prominent ... [full story]
December 17th 2007Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang Thursday 15th Nov
First day, new home, strange place. First job of the day - get some provisions in, so we take a trip to the local supermarket Cbest.
In the afternoon, Zou takes us to the trans ... 7 photos[full story]
December 11th 2007Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang Our room is on the eighteenth floor of a twenty-two floor hotel and the place we are to get married in the morning is on the fourth floor - very convenient. Also housed in the same building is a Mass ... [full story]
November 21st 2007Asia » China » Guizhou » Liping We arrived in Guiyang off an overnight train from Chengdu. On the train we met a Chinese student (Judy) studying English as her major. We enjoyed conversation and she also helped us to retrieve our ... 17 photos[full story]
November 29th 2007Asia » China » Guizhou Dag allemaal,
Het is weer eventjes geleden dat we nog eens uitgebreid konden internetten. Travelblog bleek ook een aantal dagen achtereen ontoegankelijk voor ons, misschien was de site geblokkeerd ... 28 photos[full story]
October 11th 2007Asia » China » Guizhou » Kaili With our ultimate destination next being Kunming, we had 2 routes to get there - either through Sanjiang and Liuzhou, or through Kaili. For various reasons, Sanjiang was our preferred waypoint but, a ... 4 photos[full story]
October 10th 2007Asia » China » Guizhou » Zhaoxing An early start saw us pootling out of Sanjiang in a bus packed with the usual mix of smokers and chunderers. It was clear when we passed from the province of Guangxi into the richer province of Guizh ... 50 photos[full story]
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