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Published: September 7th 2011
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Before the 20th Century, rugged mountains virtually isolated Sichuan Province from eastern China, and it was only a 400 mile stretch of the Yangtzi River (Chang Jiang in Chinese), linking the huge city of Chongqing with the city of Yichang in Hubei Province that opened Sichuan and the West to eastern China.
The journey was a perilous one, as the Yangtzi River came tearing through the "sheer-s...
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Susan Goodman
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Your blogs are great. We never did meet, while I was teaching in Nanjing. But I really enjoy reading your blogs. This one was particularly good. I\'m back in Atlanta, but am glad to be transported to China. Thanks.