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Warriors and Walls: Exploring Xi’an.

Warriors and Walls: Exploring Xi’an. May 2010. I arrived in Xi’an by train from Pingyao, the journey gliding by in a smooth, slightly hypnotic two hours and forty-five minutes. It was great, another quiet triumph for China’s high-speed rail. One moment I was watching Shanxi’s muted landscapes flicker past, the next I was stepping out […]

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