A 'reading week' trip in Beijing Photo 12

A 'reading week' trip in Beijing

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October 29th 2011
Reading week is akin to a mid-semester break where lectures and tutorials do not run for the week, allowing the students to 'read and catch up'. For a large majority of exchange students, this is an opportunity to go abroad (well even further). As usual, details of my trip were only finalised afew days beforehand and in leaving it so late resulted in a change of plans because seats for 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