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Lijiang China October 21 & 22, 2013

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January 28th 2014
Lijiang By Chinese Standards Lijiang is small a city of only 400,000. It is also one of the few cities where the Han Chinese are a minority; 8% of Chinese belong to one of 35 different minorities. Lijiang is considered the capital of the Naxi, descendent from Tibetan nomads who settled the area more than a thousand years ago. Despite the Chinese governments protestations that everythin ... read more

Asia » China

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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