Beijing

We're in China!

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April 1st 2006
April 3, 2006 - Beijing This will be my last entry in the blog. Our trip has come to an abrupt end. Just as we were getting ready to leave Seoul for Beijing we got word that my father was dying - and we needed to decide what to do/when to leave back to the US. Once in Beijing we got help from our hotel, The Radisson SAS managed to get us tickets back to Denver for Monday the 3rd (I sit writing ... 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