Tea Tasting

We tasted some tea while we were in Xi'an, and my parents got some for the family as Christmas stocking stuffers. Green tea: long jin, mao feng and some other weird kind that she said tasted like oranges... but it didn't..

Xi'an and the Terracotta Warriors

March 3rd 2011
I should have written about this before I flew out for Spring Festival, but I was pretty busy grading at the time. Things are going pretty well back at school and you can expect some blog posts within the next few weeks about my Spring Festival travels. I went to Xi’an in the beginning of December with my parents before they flew back to the U.S. The first day we spent in Xi’an was started ... 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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