Yang Zing Zhai, Forbidden City, Beijing

Real Men walk the Wall

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July 6th 2007
"The heavens are high, the clouds are pale, We watch as the wild geese disappear southwards. If we fail to reach the Great Wall we are not true men. We who have marched more than 20,000 li." (Mao Zedong) Beijing (北 京 = Northern Capital) is the cultural and political capital of the most populous country in the world. ... 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