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Off The Grid

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October 3rd 2013
I arrived in Beijing about three hours ago, it's the first time that I have been in the shortest immigration queue. There were only about a dozen of us foreign nationals entering China from my train, T98. The train itself took 23 and a half hours, but the time went surprisingly quickly, especially since I slept pretty soundly (though it took me a while to get used to the motion whilst lying ... 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