View over Tai'an

Please throw out the punnel

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September 3rd 2007
Beijing train station is massive and confusing and we arrived in very good time so as to figure out where we were supposed to be. For a no doubt self-evident reason, one is only allowed onto the platform a couple of minutes before one's train is due to depart. Obviously this causes an almighty scrum, and what with our luggage and residual queuing instinct we found ourselves at the back of the he ... 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