Shanghai Train Station

High Speed Train to Jiaxing

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June 7th 2011
The holiday weekend is over. Most of you probably didn’t know it was a holiday weekend, but this three day weekend was China’s Dragon Boat Festival holiday. It is not as exciting as it may sound, I thought there might be parades of Chinese traditional dragon dances or boat races on the river. There was little more than a gloomy, rainy weekend with some family gatherings and traditional zong zi ... 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