Shanghai: View across the Huangpu River to the famous Pudong District

Shanghai - Saigon - Singapore

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November 27th 2008
OK - here's how it's gonna be - short and snappy! The ghastly truth is that after Beijing I neglected my paper journal with entries fizzling out about now. It was such a frenzied transit from Shanghai to Saigon and then onto Singapore that my recollection is really rather fuzzy. All I can dredge up is this itty-bitty thumbnail overview. Shanghai: We sallied forth from Beijing in uber b ... 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