Making Faces

Shangri-la

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September 2nd 2008
Shangri-la Shangri-la actually means “Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”.I have been there many times when I was very young,because my dad is a geologist and that region ia very rich in mineral resource. Shangri-la has changed a lot, because of tourism,and the book “The Lost Horizon”. This summer I went ... 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