Chairman Mao

Excuse me... can we take a picture?

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April 4th 2010
I think one of the big things I'm going to miss when I get home is how much of a celebrity I am here. We get stared at wherever we go. Today more than ever. Can get annoying sometimes ~ like when we were sitting in Tiananmen Square and people kept coming up behind and us just starting at us for ages, but I love being asked for pictures! Must have posed with Chinese about 20 times just today! We we ... 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