The Provincial Museum

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August 29th 2010
So done with touristing! I am burnt out. Today we went to the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, which lays out the history of China from the Neolithic period until the Tang dynasty. Xian is the oldest city in China. The buffet we went to for lunch had biang biang noodles, as well as mashed potatoes, sushi, pork filled baozi... a very strange mixture of foods. And the only people eating their were west ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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