Er'qi tower

Zhengzhou revisited

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July 13th 2012
Hi All, First and foremost thank you so much to Zhang Lei, Jia Yu, Lucy, Moonlight and Rain. I'd forgotten how many people live here and yet I had only been in Zhengzhou 30 minutes and I got a text message from Rain asking me if I was back in Zhengzhou. Incredible! I had a rather uncomfortable ride up to Zhengzhou, 11 hours, on a sleeper coach. The beds on these coaches are not built f ... 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