Koi Pond at JHU center Nanjing

Jen in China

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May 29th 2007
Hello from Nanjing. It's been a crazy couple of days and a total adventure getting here with an emergency landing before even getting out of the U.S. The flight over was pretty fantastic. We went straight up over the North Pole through Russia and Mongolia into China. It was a beautif ... read more

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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