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Glorious Living

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August 30th 2009
I arrived to Kunming on Wednesday, August 26. It was a steamy day in Shanghai where Chris and I had to drag my suitcases from the teacher’s apartment building to the North Gate, which was about a kilometer hike. I was hoping that would be the worst of it, but I was wrong. My flight to Kunming was uneventful. I had booked my flight through ctrip, a Chinese flight booking website. I flew Shanghai ... 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