People dancing in the Park

Checking out Jingshan Park

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March 24th 2012
The day after our failed visit to the Forbidden City we decided it should be safe enough to visit one of the cities parks, so we decided on Jingshan Park which was the park behind the Forbidden city where the taxi driver dropped us the day before. The parks in Beijing are quite beautiful and often bustling with people on the weekend meeting to dance in traditional costumes, sing traditional son ... 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