Bell Tower Hotel Xian

Xian

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August 1st 2008
I am sitting in a massive internet cafe here in Xian. I had trouble finding somewhere to jump on the internet and was starting to wonder if it was to do with the censorship stuff that is on CNN. No I just wasn't looking for a dodgey front in chinese characters and three flights of stairs,through a curtain door and into a smoke filled room with hundreds of computers (and people and red lante ... read more

Asia » China

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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