Forbidden City architecture

Doing the Tourist Thing in Beijing

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September 26th 2011
After the initial flush of exploring the hutongs around our hotel and seeing all the cool activities in the Temple of Heaven Park that Karen described to you yesterday, we settled down to more mundane sightseeing activities here in Beijing. We did Tinanamen Square and the Forbidden City yesterday, traveled nearly to the end of one of the new subway lines to the Summer Palace today, and then came ... 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