DAY 8 - addendum 300000 victims

DAY 8 - addendum

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June 20th 2008
The trouble with not keeping up with diaries or bloggs every day is that you can easily confuse one day with the next. I forgot to mention somewhere we visited after lunch with Dana (Kwan was sick of walking!) which is well worth a mention. It was a memorial museum to remember the 300 000 Chinese men, women and children who were massacred by the Japanese on the days following Dec 13 1937 after bei ... 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