Mt. Tai

17 days

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July 31st 2009
According to the calendar on my wall, I have 17 days left in China. Three more weeks till I come home! Adjusting will be strange... at first I will wake up on my Mom's couch surprised that I'm not in Tianjin. Maybe this will happen a few times, and then after a while it while all seem like a dream, like none of this ever happened at all. Then I'll look over and see some small trinket which ... 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