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GREAT WALL OF CHINA! My Mom is on a plane heading this way!

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May 23rd 2007
My mother and my little sister are coming to visit me for three weeks. This is going to be intense. My duties as a free tour guide include: setting up hair appointments, arranging accommodations, making restaurant recommendations, planning shopping trips, acting as a free personal shopper for relatives not coming to China, providing bargaining expertise, working as a translator and decoding ne ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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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