Solar Salute

Dao Xian

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April 18th 2009
Saturday the April 18th we received a 9am phone call from an echo outside our window. Our foreign affairs officer Solar, standing outside our door wanted to take us for an outing. We have now learned an outing can be anything from mountain climbing to a fancy dinner. We were not to be let down. We were hustled out the door grabbing what we thought we might need and changing into what we thought ... read more

Asia » China » Hunan » Yongzhou » Jianghua

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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