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A Day in Xi'an

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July 19th 2008
A Day in Xi'an A wonderful evening and day touring the sights of Xi'an. It's a much bigger city than I ever imagined... 8 million people in the city, 34 million in the provinces around the city. It was a hot summers day and night. Very 'misty' as our tour guide explained (the two massive coal-fired power stations seemed to suggest it was more pollution) - so we had trouble seei ... 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