In the Wenshu Temple

Chengdu and You

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July 31st 2008
We are finally in Chengdu after a long and crazy 17 hour train ride in a hard sleeper. I think we have been spoiled by only getting soft sleepers on our last two trains. I am going to set up the mental picture for you so you have some sort of an idea what it was like. Our train was going to leave at 8:07pm from Xi'an. When we still hadn't boarded at 8:05pm I began to panic! I finally was able to e ... 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