Famous West Lake Bridge

Hangzhou/杭州

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October 22nd 2010
Our lab group took a trip to Hangzhou to go to a conference on atom interferometry for gravitational wave detection. Hangzhou is in Zhejiang province and the conference took place at Zhejiang University. We took a sleeper train there and played some cards on the way. Hangzhou is supposedly famous for it's beautiful scenery, especially around the West Lake area. We all gave it a "meh, looks lik ... 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