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Beijing

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April 9th 2010
We are back in Beijing. Today was the last day before we leave back to the US tomorrow. We went to the drum tower. It used to tell time for everyone in the city and people will drum every 30 minutes. They still do a drum show that was really cool. We went to the Summer Palace that was a home for the emperor. It was built in the late 1700’s. It was burned down in 1860 in the Opium Wars and reb ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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