Mountain Hanging-Coffin, Photo #3

The coffin is clearly visible, sitting at the edge of the cave. Placed there over a thousand years ago by the vanished Bai people, most of these coffins have now been removed, and along with burial goods are now safe in several Chinese museums.

#134 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Yangtze River Cruise from Yinchang to Chongqing, Summer 2011)

September 11th 2011
Before the 20th Century, rugged mountains virtually isolated Sichuan Province from eastern China, and it was only a 400 mile stretch of the Yangtzi River (Chang Jiang in Chinese), linking the huge city of Chongqing with the city of Yichang in Hubei Province that opened Sichuan and the West to eastern China. The journey was a perilous one, as the Yangtzi River came tearing through the "sheer ... 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

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