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Tiananman, the Forbidden city & the Terracota Warriors

June 7th 2008
We've been a bit slack at keeping our blog up to date. Seems like we have done loads since our last entry, we are now in Kunming, southern china. Our last few days have been spent in Xi'an, pronounced Shi-an, where we saw the terra cota warriors which were great. The warriors were built to protect Emporer Shi Huang Di in the afterlife, however upon the emporors death, the peasants rose up to defea ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xingping

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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