CHINA, PARTE 2: Xian-Beijing-Shanghai. VUELTA AL MUNDO. ROUND THE WORLD TRIP
September 20th 2006 BRIEF ENGLISH INTRO: (Pequeña introducción en inglés para los que no hablan español --después vienen todos los posts en castellano.)
Pingyao and Shanghai are great examples of how the Great China can be the oldest and the newest at the same time (though surely there are older-looking places than Pingyao). The country is stunning in so many ways. For unknown reasons, whilst I was in South Eas
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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 
