Nanjing

Nanjing

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June 5th 2010
I spent a lazy morning packing and getting ready and then had an easy train ride into Nanjing, arriving mid afternoon. This time I travelled in a soft seat carriage, which generally meant bigger and more comfortable seats and fewer people. The train from Shanghai to Suzhou had been a hard seat and was just as manic and crammed full of people as the hard sleeper carriages had been. I arrived i ... 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