Shaoyang park 12-03-11 (12)

Saturday Afternoon Stroll

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March 12th 2011
Hi All, So it finally stopped raining, it seems like it's been non-stop, so we decided to go out for a walk. There is spring in the air but it's just not quite breaking through. Perhaps another week and we'll start to get some warm weather. Life here in Shaoyang plods on. We seem to be having more contact with the people here than in Zhengzhou and we've seen things here that we'd not seen be ... 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