Requisite Mao Portrait Photo

Leading the Fashionable Travelling Storm

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July 17th 2006
Ah.... China. If we hadn't read over and over again about the horrors that the colonial period and the early years of communist rule had wrought on China's historical artifacts, we might have thought that some of the amazing treasures we've been seeing over the past couple of weeks were actually somewhat "original". Unfortunately, though, centuries of wars, edicts from emperors and (most destructi ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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