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The colourful, vivid, scented Kashgar market

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June 30th 2013
Here we are late into Sunday afternoon, the Kashgar night market, which in fact moves along quietly all day then revs up in the evening . The street vendors setting up in every available square meter of pavement. Packed, vivid, a colourful array of people and their produce. Starting along the rag trade pavement, stalls that boasted, trinkets, shoes, constantly sorting through the piles, bargain ... 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