Xi'an - Riding the Wall

China and Beyond IV

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July 7th 2009
I am sitting in Nanning, a hot and humid city in Southern China about a three hour drive from Beihai on the Gulf of Tonkin and about six hours from Hainan, the Hawaii of China. It has a flavour of Honolulu without the paper drifting on the streets. The Nanning residents have the Swiss retentiveness for clean streets and green trees. However, even though I'm leaving for Hanoi tomorrow morning, I ... 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