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Xi'an By Aishling

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February 28th 2008
Tuesday 26th February The rude awakening by the chinese train attendant repeated itself on this train. We moved at snails pace to get ourselves ready and we puzzled by the fact that no-one else seemed to be moving from their cabins. Next thing the train arrived in a station and the attendant came down and started dragging my bag out, turns out our stop wasn't the last stop and we were th ... 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