Shanghai at night

Shanghai

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October 6th 2007
After a 14 hour overnight train journey we arrived in Shanghai, it is a complete contrast to Beijing....in Beijing there were people everywhere cleaning the streets, it was really clean. Here in Shanghai it is the China we expected, street markets and people trying to sell you all sorts of tourist rubbish at every corner. The heat also hit ... 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