Real terracotta warriors

Night Life

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August 28th 2010
Today we saw the Terracotta Soldiers and the Banpo Neolithic Village site. Blah, blah, blah... Nothing good ever happens until the evening. We went to a jiaozi banquet and Tang Dynasty show in the evening. They brought more and more and more and more dumplings: far too many to eat. They could have lasted us for days. But they were good, so we kept eating them. And they are folded into the cutes ... 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