Foreign Language dept

WELCOME TO CHINA

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August 26th 2009
GREETINGS ALL: For the past few months, I have been getting ready to travel to Nanchang to teach at Nanchang Hangkong University. Tuesday night I finally arrived after a long ardous journey. I stopped in Shanghai for a 5 hour layover of which I used 3 hours just to figure out where I was going. Then I took Shenzhen Airlines to get to Nanchang which was absolutely terrifying. There was visible rus ... read more

Asia » China » Jiangxi » Nanchang

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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