The Aftermath

Wu Han - It Keeps Getting Harder

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August 12th 2009
Adios, Ciao, and Cheerio After finally completing our Yangtze “cruise” and the Three Gorges Dam our tour bus dropped us in yet another parking lot, this time in Yichang, downstream from the dam. We showed up at the Yichang Hotel and found our bags in the parking lot. An employee from the boat tried to say we could not pick up our bags, but I was not in the mood at that point. We g ... 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