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Zhangzhou, Teaching, and Earth Kingdom Tulou.

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November 29th 2013
Winter is coming. This is the theme of our trip, that winter is coming. And this heralds two omens. 1st that it will get colder in the north, and 2nd that the Typhoons, monsoon rains and the burning heat of summer will temporarily subside like the red sea and give us an easy cycling passage to the south. When we left Fuzhou the temperature had been dropping quickly for a subtropical envireme ... 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