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Trip to Nanjing

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July 6th 2007
I woke up early to get to Nanjing this morning; I wanted to take a 7:50 am train. I took the metro about 30 minutes to the Shanghai Railroad Station. Good thing I gave myself a lot of extra time because there are literally a million people everywhere. The train station ticket line is a zoo. I got my ticket to Nanjing - a bullet train that only stops once in Wuxi. The station is huge, but easy to n ... read more

Asia » China » Jiangsu » Nanjing

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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