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CHINA: Beginning to Believe & the Black Tiger

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February 21st 2013
CHINA: Beginning to Believe & the Black Tiger. Sixteen today...my sixteenthth Provence in China...Anhui...and special it should be...sweet sixteen for me! Left Christmas Eve 2012...night train from Shanghai to Huangshan...eleven & a half hours ...soft sleeper...Denise & I bottom bunks...Simon & Anna-Louise on top. Going to Yellow Mountain...my perfect destination for Christmas...the atypi ... 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