#76 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (The Jin Mao Tower graces the sky-line of Shanghai)
June 2nd 2007 The spectacular and inspiring Jin Mao Tower of Shanghai/Pudong, at 1,379-ft./420.5-m, is China's tallest building only for a few more months, and offers itself to generations as one of man's grand creations. Though this architectual work of art will within the year be over-shadowed by the next, world's-highest, collosal sky-scraper, the Shanghai Financial Center (1,509-ft./460-m), this inspired J
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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. A... ... read more 
