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Beijing

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August 17th 2012
The lama temple in Beijing is now a Tibbetan temple, but was historically an imperial residence. There were some traces of that imperial style in the size and style of some of the buildings. An unusual building for a temple was an overhead walkway connecting one of the main halls and another pavilion. The Temple of heaven is not really a temple, but a large park with imperial structures dating ... 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