Siping Main Street

Siping and Changchun

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September 13th 2008
Siping While fairly large in population (500k-1m) it represents a very poor area of China with near no tourism and I would affectionately refer to it as the 'pigsty of China', having said this the people are very friendly (if not English literate) and everything is fairly cheap. The main shopping area in Siping is the Zhongxing which is 6 floors worth of knock-off dvds and clothes. The d ... read more

Asia » China » Jilin

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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