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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: Huang Shan
Date: September 14th 2008
This weekend the Chinese celebrated the mid-autumn festival and we got a four-day weekend. My friends Gina, Kristen, and I chose to visit Huang Shan (黄山) which can be literally translated to Yellow Mountain. Huang Shan is a six plus hour train ride North of Nanjing. We left Nanjing Thursday night and bought hard bed tickets for the overnight train ride. Some of our less forward thinking fri ... read more
Date: September 14th 2008
This weekend the Chinese celebrated the mid-autumn festival and we got a four-day weekend. My friends Gina, Kristen, and I chose to visit Huang Shan (黄山) which can be literally translated to Yellow Mountain. Huang Shan is a six plus hour train ride North of Nanjing. We left Nanjing Thursday night and bought hard bed tickets for the overnight train ride. Some of our less forward thinking fri ... read more
