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Yangtze Princess

Our cruise ship. Room for 200 passengers but only 30 on this trip due to the 60th Anniversary. We were told everybody stayed home.
Up The Yangtze

October 7th 2009
From Dianne: Our journey up the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) began many years ago with a special picture book, The Story of Ping, written by Marjorie Flack. Ping was a little duck that lived on a “wise eyed” boat on the Yangtze River. As we read and reread this story to our children and then our grandchildren, we never imagined being able to journey through time on this special river. The la ... read more
Asia » China » Yangtze River

Chinese Flag 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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