Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square

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May 4th 2007
Day 1 We arrive in Beijing at 12:30pm. The flight was about an hour and a half from Shanghai to Beijing. We were greeted at the airport by our tour guide Ve (which means rose bush in Chinese) her English name is Vera. It was about 80 degrees, and very dry. I was surprised that the temperature in Beijing was much warmer than Shanghai. Although my mom arrived one day prior to our trip to Beijing ... 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