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Welcome to China!

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August 19th 2005
Hello! In case you're wondering what's up and why we haven't posted anything since we got here...well, the answer is: we did, but for some reason it failed to post on the website, and we only now just discovered it. So...yeah, we lost our first day's journal! Aaargh! Not good. OK, well, we have to get going soon so this will be quick: We've never gone overseas for vacation before, so this is p ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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