Summer Palace

The Summer Palace

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January 22nd 2009
Having been lulled into a false sense of security by yesterday's relatively high temperature, I ventured out today without my thermal base layers. And what a mistake that was; it was unbelievably freezing! Unfortunately, we didn't figure this out until we were halfway to the Summer Palace before, and as it's the other end of the city, there was no turning back. But despite almost losing all of my ... 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