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JingYan

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May 3rd 2015
Hi All, A first for me. I spent the Spring Festival with a Chinese family for the first time. I had a wonderful time in rural Sichuan. Jingyan is about 3 and a half hours south west of Chengdu near LeShan. It was so quite that at night I could hear the television from the house on the other side of the paddy fields. I was able to pick mandarins off the tree and sit around and relax. I also got ... 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