man and his bird

frontier town?

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June 26th 2005
I am in a town about a 6-7 hour smooth bus ride west from Chengdu and is said to be star tracks final frontier between C and T communities, at least according to the lonely planet bible. They have it wrong. It is overwhelmingly a C town, with ethnic Ts living amidst the normal C style city, concrete box, utilitarian construction. The shops are mainly C run, save for some shoebox food shop ... read more

Asia » China

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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