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Hangzhou

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February 5th 2008
We went to Shanghai South Railway Station early on Sunday morning to try to get tickets to the picturesqueueue city of Hangzhou. You may have seen on the news that some Chinese stations are aflood with masses of anxious travellers these days, and that in some places the trains just cannot travel because of the snow. Happily for us tourists, and unhappily for the poor unfortunates elsewhere, there ... 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