teresa eating a " hu lu" sweet

Beautiful "Zhou Zhuang" n "Hu Qiu"

---

November 7th 2005
the weekend for the trs were spent exploring the first water village - the beautiful Zhou Zhuang - which coincidentally is the hometown of our hosting school principal, Mr Shen. He personally showed us around the town and along the way i get to know lotsa chinese history and culture...hmm...n inevitably practising my chinese... in fact my listening compre has improved tremendously...*grin but t ... read more

Asia » China » Jiangsu » Suzhou

---

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