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Bye Bye Shanghai

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April 24th 2015
We met our Shanghai guide Agnes in the lobby in the morning for our last full day in China. We’ve had some great guides and Agnes was no exception. She is funny, very experienced and extremely efficient. We drove to the Bund, the city’s original Wall Street of sorts, a mix of beautiful early 20th century neoclassical and art deco buildings lining the Huangpu River. We then walked th ... 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