Archive for October, 2010
Foundations of the PRC – Part Two Posted by sasha on Oct 11, 2010
With the failure of the Second Revolution in 1913, Sun Yat-sen and other notable KMT rebels fled to Japan. Yuan Shikai was able to intimidate the parliament into electing him as President of the Republic of China that fall, and shortly thereafter, he began amending the rules of the land in preparation for his ascendency…
Foundations of the PRC – Part One Posted by sasha on Oct 6, 2010
In a country with a history as long as China’s, how is it that this nation just celebrated its 61st birthday on October 1? While China’s history goes back thousands of years, the modern day China, known as the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国 – Zhōng huá rén mín gòng hé guó) was officially founded…
Golden Week Travels (黄金周旅游) Posted by sasha on Oct 3, 2010
Greetings from Hohhot (呼和浩特 – hū hé hào tè), the capital city of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区 – nèi méng gǔ zì zhì qū). Seeing as how it is the autumn edition of Golden Week (黄金周 – huáng jīn zhōu), it was time to get out of the big city for a change…