Lesson 7: No stupid! There aren't real bodies inside the terracotta warriors!
November 26th 2007 Our 'taxi' to the pick up point for the bus to Xi'an arrived and this time it was a cross between a milk float and a golf cart, but it didn't have any material around it to keep the cold out and it was freezing...when we say freezing we do mean below freezing! This cart went 10 mph at full speed and it drove us through the streets of Pingyao new town, dodging the cars, buses and lorries and had th
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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 
