Traditional village outside Er Xian

Week 7- Hangzhou Conference and Back to Jinhua

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April 19th 2011
Hello again friends! The last time I wrote to you I had just arrived in Hangzhou for the International Conference on Social Cognition and Neuroscience. That has now been completed and I am back in Jinhua! So, let me catch you up on all that I have been up to over the past week. After arriving in Hangzhou, we were driven to our amazing conference resort, where we were all given private suites to st ... 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