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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. To be updated

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By Where in the world are Jenni and Joe
November 10th 2009

Roof of the World Asia

Tachi Dele from Tibet! We were wrong about not finding any internet cafes here, but then I for one (joe) under estimated how far chinas development would have spread in this remote region. We started our tour bright and early in Kathmandu, meeting up with the other 27 members of the tour in our own bus. We then had a 5 or so hour journey to the border. On the way we had been briefed by our guide about possesions we should expect to be confiscated at Chinese customs. Joe was asked not to even attempt to take his copy of [View Full Entry]

By mandy7
November 10th 2009

Day 4 - Great Wall & Ming Tombs Asia » China » Beijing » Great Wall of China

Today was a big day... We woke to find it had snowed all night - it was amazing! Pity we didn't see it happening ourselves. We were booked on a tour today but started it late as the bus was having trouble getting to us in the snow. Our tour guide was Pan Jiao or otherwise known as Sally, and she told us some interesting facts on china, like there are 1800 new cars on the road everyday - no wonder they have massive traffic jams. Our first stop was to the Ming Tombs. There were some great original buildings but [View Full Entry]

By Staci and Martin
November 9th 2009

Guangzhou Trip Asia » China » Guangdong » Guangzhou

Ernie
Martin all ready to leave for Guangzhou wearing his Ernie shirt. Staci LOVES his Ernie shirt.

Guangzhou is the capital city of the province we live in. The city itself has over 1,000 years of rich history, and many of the locals there scoff at the people from Shenzhen, our city that has a history of 30 years, give or take. After Chinese class on Friday, we met Mary, the sister of of good friend Jimmy. She is visiting for three weeks before venturing off to Eastern Europe for the Peace Corps. We all had dinner at the vegetarian restaurant we like downtown, and slowly made our way back to Jimmy and Cali's apartment to enjoy the [View Full Entry]

By HappyFamily
November 9th 2009

Qinhuangdao Asia » China » Hebei » Qinhuangdao

beginning of great wall of china

It's a 3 days tour by train from Beijing. Key attraction is to see where the Great Wall of China begins from the sea. We also managed to visit a section of great wall there called the water great wall and see the important great wall pass "Shan Hai Guan". We were there in Dec 07. Its very cold but trade off is there is very few tourist so travelling around is very easy. We booked a taxi and negotiated a price to drive us round the places. [View Full Entry]

By Blubba
November 9th 2009

Happy Halloween Asia » China » Shanghai

Group shot
In the morning we were greeting the children as they came to school. This is a picture of Myself, Alex, Aaron, John, Rebecca, Joanne, Delia and Holly.

This year for Halloween I dressed up as Hello Kitty (she's a Japanese cartoon cat) for those of you who don't know.....if you google her, you will see! My roomate was Hello Kitty as well and we created our costumes ourselves with our own clothes, some face makeup and a headband with cat ears and a bow. Since Halloween is a traditionally Western holiday the english teachers are in charge of decorating and organizing the events at the school. The day of Halloween we had games set up in all of our rooms for the kids to play and candy to [View Full Entry]

By mandy7
November 9th 2009

Day 3 - Temple of Heaven, Silk Market & Peking Duck Asia » China » Beijing » Temple of Heaven

What a busy day we have had today... Started off with yet another big breakfast although I opted to skip the waffles with chocolate sauce this morning to be a little healthier. We then headed off to the Temple of Heaven, $30￥, which was amazing. The buildings are beautiful and we saw some interesting dancing in the park area's. Well it was more like swaying with your arms going up and down - quite funny! We were also lucky (if you could call it that) to have it snow for a little while we were there! We then headed off to [View Full Entry]

By BrendainChina
November 8th 2009

A Day of Bread Making and Birthday Celebrating Asia » China » Hubei » Danjiangkou

My Scarf
Isn't it awesome?

Today was a normal day. I got up around noon because I ended up staying up really late last night... and by really late last night, I mean super early this morning. I got up and checked my email, and then I decided to go get something to eat. I went to the crunchy rice place. I got sweet and sour pork because when Kyle and I got it yesterday it was so good that I wanted some more. I got it to go, and I came back to my apartment. On my way back I ran into Dillon and Daley. [View Full Entry]

By Pennyfarthing
November 8th 2009

The End of the Road Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

Town in Valley

Saturday morning saw us up at 6am and off the the airport for an early flight to Kunming. Our backup bus met us at the airport and took us on the 1 1/2 hour trip to the Stone Forest south of the airport. This is a forest of 100 acres or more of stones sticking out of the ground and weather worn over th last 2 million years. Many look like animals and people, examples being the queen with her crown, fish kissing, tiger, dog etc. It was very interesting and was accompanied by traditional dancing. The worst mistake we made [View Full Entry]

By Laibakah
November 8th 2009

Halloween! Asia » China

the principals and english teachers
group pic! on the left (in the witch costume) is Delia, one of the vice principals and on the right (with the cowboy hat) is Joanne, our principal. on the far right side is Holly, the other vice pri... [more]

This entry comes a little late since Halloween is long over, but better late than never! Halloween was surprisingly a huge celebration at our school and around the city. We devoted one whole week to Halloween and taught the kids Halloween words, songs, and traditions. The school had 3 huge boxes of decorations. So the English teachers teamed up to make the lobby ghoulish and spooky...skeletons, ghosts, witches, gargoyles, giant fuzzy spiders....the works! One of my students was so scared of the halloween decor that he began crying hysterically and refused to walk through the lobby ( [View Full Entry]

By ZahraT
November 8th 2009

Last day in Qingdao Asia » China » Shandong » Qingdao

Another foggy day in Qingdao. I really need to look up what they did when the sailing was here at the Olympics - the cloud/smog cover is so thick that I find it very difficult to believe anyone would have been able to see anything.... I think I am getting a cold today - not good times. Of course, it might just be delayed jet lag but I'm dosing up to try and fight whatever it is off. I'm flying back to Tarik's in Tonglu tomorrow and they won't let me on the plane if I am displaying any signs of [View Full Entry]

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