Li River, Guilin

Ni Hao! Guilin

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June 3rd 2007
I left Hong Kong on May 27th; I took the train from Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, for about forty five minutes to La Wu, the end of the line in Hong Kong. I walked through the border crossing to the Chinese mainland into the city of Shenzhen. Shenzhen is part of the newly formed "Special Economic Zone"straddling the Hong Kong Border, the city has been recently transformed from a simple fishing village ... 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