Dawn at Tiananmen

3:45am....

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July 19th 2011
At 3.45am the alarm went off, although it felt like we had barely slept. In a sleepy daze we threw clothes on in our dark dorm room and stumbled out into those hours that are neither night nor morning. Despite the darkness as we rounded the corner onto the huge avenue leading on to Tiananmen we could instantly see the flashing police lights, hoards of people already behind the barracades and y ... 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