Oasis Meets Desert

Beginning of Silk Road

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September 9th 2009
This is the first blog entry on the trip, and it's long over due. Have been in China for 2 weeks already, and spend the first week or so meeting friends in HK and Shanghai. The past three days were spent in Dun Huang, a major silk road city 2000+ years ago. Actually it was the border city that controlled the flow of goods and immigrants between China and Persia/Europe/India. Ideal beginning fo ... 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