Forbidden City

Three weeks of sweet and sour

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January 11th 2007
Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that 'hell is other people' - an observation which suggests that as well as writing incomprehensible books and smoking too many Gitanes, the French philosopher-king spent at least one of his summer holidays on an organised tour. Having just done the same ourselves, on the several-thousand-mile jaunt from Beijing to Hong Kong, we can only conclude that on this point, 'bi ... read more

Asia » China

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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