Our class with the Editor in Chief of Xinhua News - Jiangsu

Media tours and Shanghai

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June 12th 2007
Hello all, I wanted to put out one last entry before my China travel blog ends. I've had a truly amazing trip. I've decided I want to learn Chinese now...we'll see how that goes. Not only did I learn so much about another culture but I made some really great friends along the way. I also managed to polish my haggling skills, I'm pretty masterful at it now! The final part of our class was packe ... 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