Ancient China Through Song Dynasty

Understanding the (quite long) history of China is helpful in appreciating its fascinating sights.  Every week while I’m sending out the pictures of my trip to China, I’ll add a post on Chinese history.  In a perfect world, I’d match up the history with the sights for that week.  But I don’t think I could quite get that to work, so I’ll just go chronologically.  Chinese civilization goes back about 10,000 years.  I’ll cover the first [Read more…]