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Taking Care of Business in Zhenjiang

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July 4th 2008
This past weekend we went on a trip set up by Professor Wang--aka mandatory--to a town an hour and a half away called Zhenjiang. We took the train up north with everyone, and it brought me back to my spring break trip in Shanghai where everything was planned for us. No worrying about planning, budgets, conflicting wants; this weekend was certainly easier for us. We get there and we're taken to ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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