Thousand year old garden

Shanghai in 3 days

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August 20th 2008
Shanghai is perhaps not the best place to start out a trip to China. Polluted, crowded, and chaotic, it can be quite the reality shock for the unprepared. Especially if you have just spent a year living in Japan, the land of ultra-politeness, ultra-cleanliness, and ultra-efficientcy. I think I was too concerned with pondering what kind of culture shock I would experience when I am to go home to ... 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