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Selling the Chinese countryside's soul

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June 29th 2007
Heading out from Hong Kong, we took a short train to Shenzen which is Hong Kong's nearest border to the Chinese mainland, and went through visa and passport control. We were finally in mainland China! It was actually a bit underwhelming, as everything seemed to be the same except that there was no English writing anywhere to be seen. We boarded the first of many overnight trains we would be ta ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo

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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