Elderly Woman in Hutong

Beijing Thaws

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May 3rd 2010
It took a while to come but Spring did finally arrive in Beijing. One thing I noticed about spring here is the occasional sand-storm, which coats the entire city in a layer of dusty sand and gives the sky a peculiar orange tint, the likes of which I have never seen. They do say that Beijing's future existence is threatened by the advance of the Gobi desert. In fact, one of the environmental eng ... 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