Classroom

Class?!? Oh right, this is a summer study program.

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June 5th 2007
So we started classes yesterday, and I realized that I won’t be able to spend all my time in Beijing just wandering around the city, which is probably good because eventually I probably would have taken a picture of the wrong place and spent some time in a Chinese isolation room. But I did walk around on Sunday and look for a guitar. The road I am living on, Xinjiekouwai, has a district a littl ... 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