Statue of Mao Zedong

Last Days in Hangzhou

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June 24th 2011
It seems that my time in Hangzhou has ended in spite of feeling like I just got here. So here is what I have been up to and even a preview into what I will do tomorrow. Probably the first thing that I did was tour West Lake by way of bicycle with one of the friends that I made from the big campus of Zhejiang. We rented the public bikes, a very efficient system that is cheap and easy to use, and ... 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