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Golden Week Travel

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October 13th 2007
Because the Chinese National Day holiday is three days long, many people make up work-time on the weekend before to enable them to have a full week off work, hence 'Golden Week'. We were lucky enough to be invited to travel to Tiandong and Baise (about 4 hours northwest of Nanning) by a wonderful Chinese Ph.D student. He invited us to attend his senior middle school's 70th anniversary celebrati ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Nanning

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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