Great Wall

Beijing - Are they ready for 2008?

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March 18th 2007
Honestly: no. All the infrastructure is in place and looks pretty special, but the general population is not ready to be inundated with Westerners. They look at backpackers and tourists with facination as if in a zoo. Not enough Chinese can converse in English, and the ones that do spend all their energy farming tourist dollar, and not enough Westerners can make themselves understood. Plus ther ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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