Forbidden City

Biscuits with Chairman Mao

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January 5th 2006
Hi guys hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. Christmas in China was good but a little bit strange although first will fill you in on what else I have been up to. The week before Christmas I got the bus up to Beijing to meet up with the old Swede, was so good to see a familiar face over the holidays and he came armed with almost a rucksack full of crunchies....heaven as chocolate hear t ... 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