The walkway by the moat

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April 13th 2011
Last Tuesday was Tomb-Sweeping day here in China. This is a festival where the graves of relatives are tended and visited in much the same way as we might do on the anniversary of a death. As well as being a day for this, it is also, in this part of the country at least, a day when people who have moved away from their home towns or their families, return to see them. Despite all of this, for me i ... 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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