In the restaurant area

Experience the real China in Qibao

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February 4th 2009
We started the second week of our holiday with a really early start as we were going to meet some of my Chinese teaching colleagues on the way to Qibao, an old water town only about 10 minutes away from here. In Grade 5, our next unit is Water, so we are going to look at the uses and functions of water there. We had to do a recce this week as taking 100 students to a small town is no mean feat! It ... 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