Beijing 798 district Photo 5

Beijing 798 district

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July 1st 2011
July 1st Friday Ok yesterday was a lot of fun,so today's blog will be very long. I had a lot of weird stuff happen to me. Remember those dark clouds I said in the earlier post? Well, it turned out we had a really bad thunder storm here at around 6am or so. So Dr. To decided we weren’t going to see the Great Wall yesterday. So instead he nominated yesterday as shopping day. First we went t ... 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