New Building Across the Street

Saturday the 12th

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March 12th 2011
It is now Saturday evening and I am soon going to sleep. The earthquake in Japan has been big news here and the United States. In Shanghai there were no noticeable effects from it and my daily life was not affected. The tsunami from the quake did hit the shore near Shanghai but it was very small. That would mean here it wasn’t a tsunami, correct? On the news there were reports of locals in Shang ... 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