Qingdao

Qingdao

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July 9th 2010
I arrived early in the morning due to the train taking 18 hours when I thought I would arrive in 10 hours. The hostel I booked was not near the train station and far east towards the financial district. I showed my Chinese address to the taxi drivers and three of them had no idea where the street even was. I showed them a map of the city with a dot that showed where the hostel was, still no luck. ... read more

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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