Tower in Tienanmen Square

Beautiful Beijing

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April 27th 2014
We awoke to meet our final full day in China where the bus picked us up promptly at 8 am and we were on our way to Tienanmen Square. We made our way across the busy boulevard that bordered the square. In the distance we saw the huge painting of Mao Tse Tung that hangs on the red gate leading to the Forbidden City. Every four years or so a prominent painter in China will render a new painting for t ... 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