Temple of the Jade Buddha

Shanghai - Sightseeing Day 1

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May 17th 2011
So to start the day I found out that all of China has the same time zone. I woke up thinking that I was late for meeting in the hotel lobby. Turns out that the sun rises at 4 am. So at 6 it would look late. But you don’t know this in a Chinese hotel because there are no clocks in the room. There are no clocks on the walls, on the phones, or on any of the 71 channels that make up cable televisio ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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