The Great Wall at Badeling

Beijing and the Great Wall

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April 8th 2010
“Walking ten thousand miles of the world is better than reading ten thousand scrolls.” - Chinese Proverb The cool thing about China is that it feels like one foot is planted firmly in the past and the other is planted in the future. You still have traditional things like food, tai chi, and Chinese Opera and at the same time you have futuristic architecture and electric motorcycles z ... read more

Asia » China

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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