Terracotta Warriors

Week One - Xi'an

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February 19th 2006
I have managed to survive a whole week of hanging out at House Club, playing dice and having small people attached to me for four hours a day. We attempted to socialise at another bar where Richard met up with some of the girls who work at the museum with him, but after half an hour, we got a bit bored of just being four more faces in the crowd, so stopped off at House on the way home to wallow in ... 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