Dazu

I Thought This Was The Subtropics

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November 30th 2009
So it's been a while. Like I said, I'm not a blogger. So I'll pretend the first part of this was written a long time ago. Last Wednesday morning found both Zak and I on buses headed to the Shenzhen airport to begin almost a week of exploring the provinces of Sichuan and Chongqing. It was a welcome break from teaching for us both and neither of us had yet visited this particular area of China ... read more

Asia » China

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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