Boiled Pork Dumplings

Dumplings and Warriors - Xi'an

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August 15th 2009
Night Moves Although Shanghai was frustrating, overall we enjoyed our stay there. Chongqing, Wu Han, and the Yangtze tour in between the two were increasingly more difficult. I also felt as though there were no significant differences between CQ and Wu Han. Most of the architecture was new, tall, and boring, crisscrossed with highways and crowded city streets. I was putting a lo ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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