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Holiday in Beijing and X'ian

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October 4th 2008
After just under a month of teaching, I found myself on a week of holiday time. A small group of us ventured by plane first to Beijing for 3 days and then on to X'ian for another 3. Visiting Beijing on my own terms was much nicer than the whirlwind tour I took 4.5 years ago. I actually got a sense of the city. On the first day, we went to the Forbidden City and T'ianamen Square again, but whil ... 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