Clocks

From our "tourist in our own town" weekend comes this picture of an ornate clock. Clocks were a big deal back in the late 1500s when Jesuit missionaries introduced them to the late Ming dynasty emperors. Many of these old, ornate clocks are still around.

Lead up to Christmas Dalian 2010

December 15th 2010
Sorry about the technical glitch... It turned out it didn't lose the other half and the photos, it just published the first half of the text. I must have hit some key combination that set things in motion, sort of... Anyway, here is the real blog! Tourists in our own town We had decided to spend the weekend of my birthday at our favourite hotel in Dalian. The first problem was that th ... 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

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