Buddha in Cave 3

The huge seated Buddha carved out of the wall at Yungang's Cave 3

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March 6th 2007
Depending on whose statistics you manage to get hold of (and the real ones are almost impossible on a Chinese computer, as the internet censors have been at work again), Datong is in the top three most polluted cities in China. Which puts it in the top 20 worldwide. I had heard that the city was pretty grim, but I wasn't exactly sure how dangerously high levels of toxins in the air w ... read more

Asia » China » Shanxi » Datong

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

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