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A break from the brutally cold Chinese winter

February 5th 2008
A spine-compressing 2.5 hour mini-bus ride delivered us several inches shorter to the little village of Damenglong, 5 physical kilometers and 20 road kilometers from the Burmese border in southern Yunnan province. The bone-rattling ride snaked through tiny minority farming villages, sadly, on a pock-marked, dirt road inundated with road construction crews and heavy equipment. Once again we observe ... read more
Asia » China » Yunnan

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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