Executive club

December 29, 2009

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December 29th 2009
Today we started off at the Shanghai Museum, just a short walk from our hotel. We viewed some coins from Genghis Kahn era and some jade that was 5000 years old! Then we toured the Shanghai planning museum where they had a model of the city that you could view from the floor above. It was interesting to see the location of our hotel and the areas we walked through. After a quick lunch at the under ... 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