Backstreet Wanderings

Pinyao, so many museums, so little... in them

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September 18th 2008
Blogs are like buses, you wait for ages and then..... Early the next morning (have you noticed how many early mornings we’re doing, its worse than going to work you know!) We got the slowest taxi in town to the bus station, where we boarded a rickety old bus to Taiyuan for the connecting bus to Pingyao, an ancient Ming dynasty walled banking city which has remained relatively untouched and is ... read more

Asia » China » Shanxi » Pingyao

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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