Buddhist Temple

Kunming

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May 26th 2008
Kunming is known as the city of "eternal spring". And what a relief from Beijing. Visable mountains, fresh air, flowers in windows and on tables, bouganvilla cascading everywhere: a city that seems lived in, as opposed to just inhabited. I arrived at midnight amid rain, but by morning it was gone, and it was a great pleasure to walk around in the city of about a million and half. The bird ... 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