Yuyuan Garden

Yuyuan Gardens

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October 18th 2009
One of the first things I saw in Shanghai was Yuyuan gardens in the heart of the city. At the end of August all of the new English teachers had to go to the travel hospital to be checked out, in order to be fit for work. We spent the afternoon doing some sight seeing, shopping and visted the Garden. It was hard to believe that something so old and beautiful is in the middle of a modern city. A ... 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