medallion in a courtyard at Dongshan

Day 5: Wuxi, Suzhou, and Nanjing

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October 15th 2009
Today we left Wuxi to travel ~1 hour southeast to visit the Dongwu Foreign Language School and Foreign Language Teachers College. We had a brief tour of their campus and then spent about 20-30 minutes meeting with their principal. We then traveled another hour to our lunch destination, which was located at the edge of Taihu Lake. We were supposed to have a quick lunch to allow more time for sig ... 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