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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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By BunnyRabbit
September 6th 2008

Back again

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Entrance to temple on mountain

Thursday 21st August. My journal continues - A tale of two lighters. They get you in the end, they always do. I’m approaching British security at Heathrow and find a lighter in my pouch. I quickly unzip my case and put it inside the case, believing that I should not carry it in the plane but not wanting to throw it away because I might want to light a cigar at the other end of my arduous travels. However once through x-ray my case is put to one side for further securitization and I have to wait. I’m done for, they [View Full Entry]

By monkey on a bike
April 9th 2008

Gimpy Elbow Causes Delay

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gimpy elbow
Damn Kebab grease on the road

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 Embassy to get my Visa sorted. I took an interesting picture in the Nanning Bus Station, a good example of the beauty that is 'Chinglish.' Check out the "Bus Station Loving Service", not a dating service or seedy hooker booking service as it might suggest, but actually just a customer service booth. I met a guy in Nanning, a young Brit called Liam, who had just spent [View Full Entry]

By travellinglisa
February 10th 2008

Happy Chinese New Year

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New haircut
I now officially look like a proper Mainland Chinese girl >.< The hairdresser gave me a fringe without telling me!

Hello all! travelblog.org? Welcome to first blog entry! With the plethora of blog hosts out there, why travelblog.org then - with its non-HTML formatting (a pet hate!), google ads (equally as annoying), difficult to remember address (no one types in .org) and unfriendly user interface? Probably not the most important thing one looks for in a blog but I'm somewhat fussy about my blog applications, after being used to livejournal for 5 or so years. Well, travelblog.org is the only one which works properly in China. Most of the other popular blog sites such as blooger.com and li [View Full Entry]

By Laowai
January 19th 2008

Guizhou: where did I see that large statue of Mao before?

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Winter Wonderland 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 color that comes to mind is green, there was no green in the rice fields these days but the replacing white made a spectacular sight nonetheless. The rice fields were not the only things that were frozen, some parts of the highway were suitable for the Dutch elfstedentocht (ice skating competition linking 11 cities). I’m wondering if the Chinese use any precautions [View Full Entry]

By BunnyRabbit
December 17th 2007

Feet on the ground

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River crossing

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. The small supermarket is not far from our apartment, in fact it seems that everything we need is not far. There are vegetable shops just outside in the street and many other small shops. Also in the narrow street are street traders, selling vegetables and other merchandise. At the end of the small street on the way to the main shopping area, is a large square/plaze, in the middle of which is [View Full Entry]

By BunnyRabbit
December 11th 2007

Life Underground

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Lovers
Guiyang

Our room is on the eighteenth floor of a twenty-two floor hotel and the place we are to get married is on the fourth floor - very convenient. Also housed in the same building is a Massage Hospital! Would newly weds need this I wonder? Our room is spacious with a great view of night-time Guiyang and in the distance is an illuminated temple. The room has two large single beds, just what we need for our wedding night! The reason why we have come to Guiyang to get married is simple, it is the only city in the province that [View Full Entry]

By BunnyRabbit
December 6th 2007

Hole In The Ground

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Century Park Shanghai

Thursday 25th October 07 Twenty miles of nose to tail, grindingly slow traffic is not what you want when heading to the airport to catch a flight. But this is what the M25 dished up me as I left England. I felt that either this country did not want me to leave or that my last hours here were to be sheer agony. This feeling hadn't been helped by Kevin my son getting a flat tyre before picking me up, so delaying our departure. As the hours ticked by and light faded, visions of missing the flight loomed larger but as [View Full Entry]

By B n B
November 8th 2007

OK ok new stuff, yay, about time eh?

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Hi again fowks, this blogging thing has been running into all sorts of delays and hiccups, not sure where the blame lies. Could be me, not a lot of time with work and socializing and that, could be the computer….one thing all should know about China….nothing works…including our PC. We had a big ass system crash after having a shop in town fix a couple of things, so muggings here spent the better part of two weeks trying to install dodgy Chinese windows (you know what I mean) and then installing all those little bits of essential software. Then we ran [View Full Entry]

By NicholasFindley
October 30th 2007

Waterfalls, Caves and Food

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The waterfalls!
Huge

The school decided to let us off with a week! A whole week to not teach and also to give us some spending money, so wasn't going to pass off this opputunity to get out of the province. Felt like Yunnan was getting too small for me in relation to traveling. So I looked up on the good old c-trip for cheap flights and one of the cheapest was to Guiyang which I had never heard about and there was barely any information in the lonely planet book, but it seemed like the best idea so decided to take full advantage [View Full Entry]

By Rich n Di
October 21st 2007

The trepid travellers continue

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Petrified Women Waiting for Husband

Your asia correspondents calling from Guanling, to the north-east of Kunming. Since we last spoke we cycled back down to Kunming, via some good roads and through fine scenery. We then headed east, visiting the Stone Forest at Shilin. Not petrified or fossilised forest as you might expect, but weirdly-eroded stone formations. The local Yi people have woven some of the formations into their mythology and have ascribed names to them, such as "Petrified Woman waiting for Husband", though the likenesses are not immediately apparent. Or apparent full stop. You may judge for yourselves once I g [View Full Entry]

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