Decorated Room within Garden

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July 4th 2009
Saturday while in Suzhou, we visited two Chinese gardens. The first was a miniature garden first laid out in 1140 called Master of the Nets Garden (also home of the infamous “squatty potty”). The second was much larger. It is called The Humble Administrator’s Garden, is around 13 acres and was built in 1509. The wealth of the city’s officials, scholars and traders was spent on their ga ... 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

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