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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]
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] Blog: addendum
Date: February 24th 2012
Got in my first taxi tonight. It's not a car or a rickshaw, something in-between. So, in keeping with typical Chinese driving, the guy does a u-turn in the middle of traffic, drives in the wrong lane for a few seconds while a swarm of cars come toward us, and then gets in the right lane and took us to the Tangshan Train Station. Wish I had recorded some of that, but oh well - maybe next ... read more
Date: February 24th 2012
Got in my first taxi tonight. It's not a car or a rickshaw, something in-between. So, in keeping with typical Chinese driving, the guy does a u-turn in the middle of traffic, drives in the wrong lane for a few seconds while a swarm of cars come toward us, and then gets in the right lane and took us to the Tangshan Train Station. Wish I had recorded some of that, but oh well - maybe next ... read more
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