at the terracotta warriors factory

A Town We Call BJ

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November 1st 2007
Our flight to Beijing, aka BJ, was uneventful. Always a good thing but I did finish my second book, Cather in the Rye. I have to say, I know I read it when I was younger, but I really really liked it. Highly entertaining for me. I now have no more books and the ones in China are all in Chinese. I will say I was a little nervous to fly China Eastern after that awful debacle I had to Shanghai, ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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