View from the walkway

The Shanghai World Expo

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August 24th 2010
WARNING: LONG BLOG AHEAD. If you don’t have 20 minutes to kill, just skim through the photos. It was my great luck to happen to be training in Shanghai while the World Expo was taking place. Any world expo would be a sight to see, but one in China, now that has got to be a show. China seems to be treating the expo as a sort of “Olympics: Part Two”. The whole country has expo fever. Sta ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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