A Trip to Beijing to Ring in the New Year Photo 5

A Trip to Beijing to Ring in the New Year

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January 1st 2012
The New Year weekend was the ONLY long weekend my school would be having all year so I felt like I should take advantage of the extra day and go somewhere. Beijing is relatively close to Dalian and other than for the volleyball trip in November (in which I didn’t really see anything but the inside of a gymnasium), I hadn’t been to Beijing City in years.<span> We took the train (soft s ... 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