beijing opera

*Beijing!

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April 11th 2008
Back from Beijing! We had a great time and really saw just about everything! here's a quick overview... • we got the train from wuxi on friday night at 8:30. some korean guys asked us to switch rooms so they could all be together and then to thank us they gave us peanuts and beer, haha. our roomates on the train were an english teacher and her husband, they were both really nice and we t ... 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