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China's pride and joy right now is their national pavilion. The wait was 5 hours to get in!

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July 5th 2010
After the 2008 Beijing Olympics were over, the next major event China started looking forward to was the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. The Expo is the latest in a line of events that used to be called the World's Fair. When I was in Shanghai last year, the entire riverfront was closed as they were doing construction and maintenance to prepare for the estimated 100 million visitors the city woul ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai » Huangpu

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

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