Dog outside tea shop

A Feast Of Red Lanterns

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May 28th 2008
We caught a train to Taiyuan which is an hour away from Pingyao at 23.00, ending up at 7 am the following morning having no sleep and frustrated as hell as the squat loo were locked because some bright spark had sprayed their evil bout of D&V all over the place and must have died in there soon after, there were no western loo's anywhere which left me feeling constipated in Taiyuan. I had hea ... 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