Way Out West Photo 5

Way Out West

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August 6th 2011
I have spent the last four days in minority-dominated and mountainous Western China. First stop was Xi’ning, the capital of Qinghai province. I sat next to some interesting people during the sixteen hour journey (no more beds were available) from Luoyang. There was the father with his two young sons, and a friendly, portly, middle-aged man. I slept for the first two hours or so. Upon awakening, ... 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