panda!

Qingchengshan, pandas and more...

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October 24th 2006
Ni hao all My mum came to visit me on Friday from Bangladesh and is leaving tomorrow, so we've been doing the tourist thing, even tho of course i am NOT a tourist - wo shi Chengdu ren in fact. On Sunday we took the coach from Xinanmen St (just across the river in town) to Qingchengshan, i.e. Mountain ('shan' means 'mountain'), which took around 90mins in a battered old bus with the driver sm ... 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