Technology at PEP

Day 6 - July 6

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July 7th 2009
Our main purpose for the trip was to present at the US-China Educational Leadership conference held today at the People’s Education Press (known as PEP). We departed from the hotel at 7:30 a.m. in order to make it to the PEP for an 8:30 a.m. conference start time. I suggested to Jan and Jim, our guides, that some of the accompanying guests may not want to sit all day in a conference on educatio ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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