Nanjing Road

A new challenge....

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November 9th 2007
Stepping off the train in Shanghai we were met by chinese character after chinese character. Immediatley we knew we were going to struggle in China so we bought ourselves a phrase book, although this didn't prove too helpful. Once again we had a problem, this time not our fault! We wanted to leave China in mid-November but as it turns out all the flights were fully booked up until December. This w ... 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