Ming City Walls Park

Beijing - Peking duck

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May 20th 2010
In anticipation of tomorrow (see next entry), I had a quiet, admin day today. I did manage to make it to the Ming City Walls park - a small mile or so long stretch of park that runs alongside the remaining / reconstructed bits of the old city wall of Beijing. There was a museum of sorts, with the history and pictures (all captions in Mandarin, but the pictures were pretty) and I ... 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