Departure Point

Downstream On The Yangtze River

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May 9th 2010
Chongqing is said to be one of the three furnaces of China, when I got there it was already 35 degrees and only nine in the morning. The city is massive, all I could see as I left the train station were high rises, and the sky was depressingly gray and hazy due to such pollution. Thirty million people are said to live in the municipality, that's almost as much as the population of Canada! I counte ... read more

Asia » China » Hubei

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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