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Pavillion of the Washing the Tassel of My Official Hat

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Venice of the Orient and the Fast Streets of Shanghai

December 24th 2008
So after another mission on the sleeper train...15 hours of hell this time...we arrived not in Sudong but in Suzhou, which is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the East because of the numerous canals that the city is built around. A 10 minute taxi ride took us to our hotel, a small but pleasant looking abode down a side street. Appearances can be deceiving. Checking in seemed lovely eno ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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
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