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Highlights of Li Jiang

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March 10th 2008
Li Jiang was such a rich experience that I must show more of the photographs I took there. The Naxi (pronounced Nah-hee) people are a minority group who live there. Their pictographic language is the oldest such language still in use today. The Dongba, in the feather headdress, (!) is one of fourteen surviving Naxi who are entitled to write out the language. In the picture you can see his inscrib ... 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