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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]
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] Blog: China
Date: July 7th 2008
Date: July 7th 2008
China
A Chinese Introduction The plane taxi to our gate at the Beijing terminal was a pitch-perfect introduction. Helaine and I were en route from Bangkok and were originally scheduled to stay overnight in Hong Kong and fly to Beijing the next morning, where we would meet up with Anne and McCall for our trip through China. We instead hopped an earlier flight i ... read more
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