The roads, only a few miles outside of Haikou, look quite different in the rain.

Our bus-driver had to navigate this and many similar roads on the way to visit a local village, known for its harvests of Jack-fruit. The picture was taken from inside the van, and accounts for the poor quality.

#97 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China ("Tropical" Island of Hainan, China's smallest Province)

April 1st 2008
In ancient China, the southern Island of Hainan was known as the "end of the world". It is the place, to which many brave dissenters and critics of China's Imperial Dynasties and its emperors were exiled. One of the most outspoken critics of the Song Dynasty was China's ancient, grand poet Su Dongpo, who was exiled to Hainan between 1097 A.D. and 1100 A.D. by the Song Dynasty emperor. He descri ... 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

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