#50 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Beijing, Temple of Heaven)
August 15th 2006 The Temple of Heaven represents the highest development of religious architecture in China. Though religious rituals have been held on this spot as far back as the 11th Century B.C., this temple of perfection and harmony was constructed by the Ming Dynasty in the year 1420, some 70 years before the liberation of Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella from the Moors, and the sailing of Columbus from t
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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 
