Gardens

Eating with chopsticks keeps the touts away

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January 17th 2009
Another day as a tourist in Shanghai. Shopping malls are all starting to look the same, old streets with quaint washing lines hung overhead and various shops underneath then all look the same and food stalls are all selling candied crab apples and rockmelon crescents and the temples whether Buddhist or Taoists are all starting to look like each other also! Visited the Yuyuan gardens in the Old ... 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