Mati Si

For relaxing and laying fallow

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August 20th 2010
Or so a sign read at a park in Zhangye. Now I am no expert, but as far as I know fields lay fallow, not people. However I did decide to heed the sign since relaxing and laying fallow sounded quite good at the time. Before stumbling upon this sign I was still travelling at a fair pace and exhausting myself in the process. After Dunhuang, I got a bus to Jiayuguan, a name I kept mispronouncing an ... 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