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The 15 Ways of Violent Death, Sanlitun, Pure Girl Bar, the Hutong, the Pearl Market and the (Not So) Forbidden City

July 3rd 2006
So, now I've been to Beijing twice, and I can picture myself living there. It ranks right up there with Buenos Aires. We took a bus from Tianjin on Saturday afternoon, which cost about US $4 and took about two hours. We checked into our hostel (the Red Lantern Hostel), and made our way over to the Sanlitun foreign bar district for dinner. We ate at the Hidden Tree (the salad and pizza were an amaz ... 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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