Old-style Beijing.

So pretty!

A grand (and free) tour of Beijing! (Part 2)

January 2nd 2011
I'll try to make this brief, because I have no time at all! Also, I'll post pictures of the Forbidden City later, because they're on Jia's camera. We visited an old-Beijing style street, where I had pig intestines for breakfast. It was so good! We then visited Yonghegong, a temple devoted to the largest Buddha statues in Beijing. I could not take any pictures of the Buddhas, because it is disres ... 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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Lindsay Dillon

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Graduated in 2011, in anthropology, Japanese and Chinese at Kansas State University. I also somewhat study Tibetan. I have a keen interest in Korean, Thai and Yucatec Maya language, dont ask why. :)) I'm constantly in awe of where these small hands have taken me, and of where my feet might be swept off to. And how such powerful everlasting messages of love and life, instilled in these opportunities, present themselves as an enormous gift to such a small frail and mortal body. I now better understand and appreciate the world's people, through my time as an expat overseas. I have traveled arou... full info

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