Kungfu Baba

Shanghai

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March 31st 2010
One of the sites we saw in Shanghai was the French Concession. In all truth, I wasn't very impressed by it. It was the equivalent of Guilin's Western streets...only bigger, cleaner and more expensive. Thankfully our guide, Sky, rushed us through this area on our way to lunch. While walking through the Concession I passed a man with an old-style silk cap with strings down the back that had been bra ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai » Jing'an

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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