Bamboo Temple1

Last day in China

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October 24th 2010
Hi all. Just wanted to make one last post from China since today I leave for Laos. Wandered around Kunming yesterday and made it to the Bamboo Temple. This was an odd little place. Initially raised in the Tang dynasty, it was rebuilt in the 19th century a sculptor Li Guangxiu and his apprentices who created 500 'noble ones.' Apparently it took eight years to create this attempt to represent h ... 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