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Meeting up with old friends

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August 20th 2013
Hi All, Thanks to Rebecca today. She lives very close to Hangzhou. We met up close to the hostel I am staying at and walked off to find the West Lake. We walked through some beautiful gardens, Lotus in the Breeze at Crooked Courtyard, and part of the West Lake that is seperated by the Su causeway. The places here have very poetic names. The lake is very pretty and is typical Chinese, a ... 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