Hanging Monastery

Into the Heart of China

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February 26th 2007
With great joy and anticipation for what lie ahead, my time in Shanghai came to an end and I was off to an area loaded with Chinese history. Once again public transportation was the same: people shove and push their way to get on trains no matter how much time you have before the scheduled departure, people were amazed to see a foreigner sitting with them, and tickets onward were almost impossibl ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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