Chengdu, Sichuan

Happy New Year from Sichuan

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February 19th 2011
Photos: ....my original plan to visit Miss Piggy for her wedding floundered when either I or she (or both) mixed up the dates. It's on March 8th, not February 8th. After two days on the farm & a few more in Guiyang plus a trip to the Huangguoshu Falls, documented in last week's newsletter, it ... 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