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The Damn Yankees Meet the Dammed Yangtze

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January 10th 2007
Our heads are swimming with our visit to China -- we loved it!! Eleven days was not enough -- another place we need to visit again someday... We started our tour of China in Shanghai -- a very modern, cosmopolitan city of 22 million people. But there were some quaint parts we were lucky enough to visit including Old Shanghai and the Yuyuan Garden. But oh, the waterfront and the skyline of Shan ... 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