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The People's Republic of China

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THE EXPRESSIVE EYES OF ACTORS IN THE PEKING OPERA

3 ACTS OF THE MONKEY KING

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA IN BADLING, CHINA

These photographs in the Badaling Hills are of the Great Wall of China. The first construction of this massive wall was begun more than 2,000 years ago, and completed under Ming Dynasty rule in the 14th century. It remains the only man-made landmark visible to the naked eye from the moon.

As we walk along its ramparts, undulating up and down steep hills, imagine the scenes of battle, ceremony, commerce and labor that have taken place along its 3,900-mile path to the sea.

Construction on the Great Wall of China symbolizes China's determination to keep foreigners out. The isolation of this great nation was nearly complete until very modern history, and Westerners have only just begun to visit the treasures within the country that was a flourishing civilization when most of the rest of the world was just making its way out of the Stone Age.
 

LUNCH ON THE ROAD

WALKING THROUGH THE MING TOMBS

We visited the peaceful valley that the Ming emperors chose as their burial ground. Pass through a great marble gateway more than four centuries old, and onto the Avenue of the Animals, lined with massive stone statues of kneeling and standing elephants, camels and mythical beasts. Nearby we see tombs housing the remains of 13 emperors and innumerable treasures.
 

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