Beijing it’s a long story …. 032

Beijing it’s a long story ….

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January 14th 2009
Well right now im sat in a five star hotel overlooking the beach waiting for my breakfast /lunch to arrive. But it was not even a week since I was in Beijing and I thought I better start talking about my 10 days there or I would probably forget some of the detail, you know what I mean. So we got the bullet train and arrived in Beijing and it was a very busy place compared to all ... 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