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Remembering the hills...Dawukou

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May 11th 2012
Mountain Climbing (Paw Shan) When I was twenty-one (er-shee-ye) years old I had the privilege of being at Fort Benning, Georgia. I was there training to be a soldier. Every day was very long; we were lucky to get 3 (san) or 4 (si) hours of sleep. Those days were physically demanding as well. Well, this past Wednesday and Thursday were very similar to the days of ‘boot camp”. But they were w ... read more

Asia » China » Ningxia

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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