a university sign

bulleting to Nanjing

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December 17th 2011
As I said last time sometimes there has to be a "gap" so I can catch up with myself and have a rest. After breakfast yesterday (was it really?) in Suzhou I went for a quick walk to try and catch up with the canal type area. However the Lonely Planet rightly says most of them have been filled over and I'd likely got as much a view of them before. My train was at 11:44 AM so I wanted to leave fr ... 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