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Food, Fireworks, and Hipster China's Coffee Street

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February 17th 2012
February 6 was the last day of Chinese New Year and I celebrated it at my Modern Chinese History professor's house. Then Dorothy and I found a coffee street full of small coffee houses that were full of thoughtful Chinese students studying. We enjoyed milk tea and terimesu. I will be blogging about this coming weekend trip when Dorothy and I plan to visit the Sichuan Bamboo Sea ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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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