Rings of the Olympic Games

Life in Qingdoa

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December 3rd 2008
We were at the lab part of the day just working on a manuscript for another graduate student, but that stuff really isn’t the good stuff. It was everything else that is more fun. We left for Qingdoa today, which is the hometown of the professor I’m working with here in China. Qingdao is along the Pacific Ocean and is also where the sailing portion of the Olympics was held. There were Beiji ... 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