Outside Yu Yuan Garden

Finally, some action...

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June 19th 2005
10.00am, Home away from home. What a beautiful day. The summer weather is perfect. Its not too hot and not too cold. After breakfast we took a cab to Yu Yuan Garden. It is a gorgeous old garden. It was built during the reign of Ming Emperor JiaJing (1559) as the private garden of Pan Yunduan which was an administration commissioner of Sichuan Province. Today, you find Starbucks, KFC and a myria ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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