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A Belly Full of Bao

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May 21st 2010
Green. I hadn't realized how much I'd missed it. A mere 36 hour train journey and the brown sand of mongolia had faded into a chinese spring. Grassy mountains dripping with vegetation, fields of succulent crops, walkways lined with trees. And I mean trees with leaves. It was heaven. Beijing was not the hectic metropolis I had imagined. Yes it was busy but very little of the city is high rise s ... 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