Tagged with gansu

Catching a breath in Gansu

I’m currently in the middle of a bike trip from Beijing to Hainan. This isn’t my first ridiculously long bike trip, I did something similar in 2008 when I went from Hainan to Beijing. But, unlike 2008 it’s a lot more ambitious. Not only did I start from a much lower level of physical conditioning, …Read More

Marian

// May 28, 2012 //

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Chinese History

New DNA evidence for Liqian’s truly lost laowai

So the story goes that around 2000 years ago approximately 10,000 Romans, prisoners of Parthia after a failed campaign by Marcus Licinius Crassus (played in this blog post by Lord Laurence Olivier), were put to work guarding the Parthian Empire’s eastern borders in exchange for not being put into slavery or executed. Members of the …Read More

Ryan McLaughlin

// Nov 26, 2010 //

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