Photos From a Cultural Revolution Ballet!

Wuxi/无锡, Jiangyin/江阴, Book Reviews!

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October 6th 2010
After saying bye to Lauren in Nanjing, I hopped on a train and went another hour east to meet my mom's friend Jia who works half of the time in the States and half of the time in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. Jia's empolyee Shihong met me in Wuxi and then together we took a bus to Jiangyin. I didn't take a lot of pictures and my tooth was killing me. It's hard to enjoy things when you are urgentl ... 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