One of the gates on Xi'an's wall

You mean "Terracotta" by Guerlain?

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May 3rd 2007
ANGLAIS Xi'an, home of the 2000 year old Terracotta Warriors not "Terracotta" face powder by Guerlain as suggested by the Parisienne at the hostel. After 13 hours on a hard seat on a train from Beijing to Xi'an we were fried. Veteran Chinese travellers it seems can sleep sitting upright on a wooden bench but we could not. Nathalie spent a few hours curled on the floor alternating betwe ... 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