Two foreign spies on an adventurous hunt for the truth in the North of China
October 27th 2008 This travel blog recounts the adventures I had travelling four provinces in the North of China (Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, Shaanxi) with my good friend Bastien, who came to visit China and me earlier this year. Together we travelled for about 11 days and covered quite a distance. We took a lot of over night trains, in some places only stayed for a day, arriving early morning, setting off with
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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 
