donkey

leaving pingyao

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August 18th 2006
in the evening i had to leave pingyao and although i wouldn't have known what else to do in this town and i knew it was the right time to leave i got a little bit melancholic. from everywhere i got offers to get a ride to the railway station and the further i came the cheaper the offers got. i just felt like walking, it felt like the right way to leave pingyao. after a while i even started to feel ... 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