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August 27th 2010
After the airplane arrived and we checked into the hotel, we visited the Forest of Stone Steles, which is a Confucian temple containing many stones carved with Chinese classics. It was very impressive. I could have stayed there and admired it for a long time, but our tour guide, Henry, corralled us with his stuffed smurf on a stick (so we can find him in crowds) and took us up the Xian city wall. ... 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