Me with local Pingan ladies

Yangshao, Longshen and Guillin

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October 12th 2006
On the last weekend before the course ended a group of students were taken away for the weekend by Jerry the Dean, Mrs Chen, overseas students co-ordinator and a number of other office staff. We hired two cars and drove about 6 hours north of Nanning to Longshen, the most beautiful mountainous region north of Guillin. Lonshen is a minority group area with traditional villages, like the 'Village ... 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