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Awesome Elephant (Buddhist?) Statue  
   

Awesome Elephant (Buddhist?) Statue

At the North end of the Forbidden City
The Forbidden City and Jiangsu Park

July 3rd 2009
Between June 21st and July 3rd, nothing that memorable happened. I had a few tests, visited MORE new restaurants in Shanghai, relaxed and read in both the French Cafe and the 24 hour one right outside SJTU, exercised around the SJTU track, and got to bboy a little bit more. I guess I did miss the trip to the Confucius Temple, but ff anything else important did happen...I can't really remember it, ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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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