Scott

圆明园 (Yuanmingyuan)

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July 3rd 2010
After class, we went to Yuanmingyuan ("round bright park?") to relax. The scenery was beautiful and the clouds made very interesting and regular patterns in the sky. Yuanmingyuan had many beautiful gardens and buildings and the French and English destroyed it. They decided not to restore it, so one can see the damage that the Western imperialists did. The park was huge so we didn't see many of ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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