empress statue in Huaquing Pool

xi'an

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March 12th 2006
hello hello xian has been awesome..we arrived after a hard sleeper..where i slept like a baby as dave put the world to right with a lovely chinese boy called oscar..and went straight to jim beans (!)hotel..jim bean by the way, is a legend. (who also has a bit of a thing for mika.dave) we spent the morning sleeping and then set out to explore..we found that although a massive city xian is much ni ... 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