On The Revolutionary Trail 20160714_085937

On The Revolutionary Trail

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July 14th 2016
Hi All, It's great to be out on the road again. After a 30 hour train journey and a very good night's sleep I was good to go. Yan'an is a remote city in North Western China which marked the end of the Long March, a strategic retreat in which the Chinese communists we're escaping persecution from the ruling Kuomintang, KMT. Here in Northern Sha'anxi and Gansu the communists set up a soviet and tr ... 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