Museum

the Tianhou Temple

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February 6th 2009
In my quest to show Chelsea some actual Chinese culture in this baby city we took a bus to Chiwan Village, a small village in the Nanshan district. Cara, Kim, Miriam (sp?), and Sarah came with us because they, too, were interested to see some history in this McD's riddled metropolis. The village felt so much more Chinese than the part of the city I live in. And we reveled in the fact that it wasn' ... read more

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen

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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