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May 9th 2007
With Mary off in Toyko and Eli and Jaime in Borneo, I was forced to attack China's tiger leaping gorge with some new travel pals. Having spent my time in Dali half independent and half with my new English friends Emily and Katherine (both english teachers in Guangzhou, so there were hours of competing in memorable chinese stories....emily won with the story of rats running over her head just befor ... read more

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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