Open mic at Jingshan Park

Everywhere we went there seemed to be people singing, especially in Jingshan park. People were either in little groups or large choirs or just on their own singing opera to the trees. Catherine and I were not particularly fond of the style or pitch but found it very interesting and amusing nevertheless!

The Great Beijing

June 24th 2006
From Shanghai we headed straight to Beijing. By this stage, our travels in China were starting to feel like a city tour as all we seemed to be seeing was congestion and high rise buildings. Beijing is huge and already undergoing a lot of contruction and maintence in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. In fact, we even saw a massive coundown clock, counting the years, months, days, hours, minutes an ... 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

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