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Ming Vases?

Panjiayuan Weekend Market (also known as the Dirt Market)is famous for its amazing range of Chinese curios tracing the crafts of many hundreds of years. All authentic, of course?! Buyers beware, this is not a place for the faint hearted with respect to bargaining! Fascinating all the same!
#15 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College-Backpacking in Beijing - Streetlife

July 2nd 2006
This week I decided to take a quick trip to Beijing before I start out on my “Great Southern Adventure” into Guanxi, Guizhou and of course, Yunnan. An additional reason to go now is to avoid the huge summer crowds and the oppressive summer heat that arrive in July and August. Beijing is an easy 13hr train ride that leaves Taizhou Railway Station at about 6.30pm at night and arrives in Beijing ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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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