100 Wonders of China

A series of treasures of mankind on five continents continues the book about China. This country and its culture invariably attracted the West since the time of Marco Polo - the first European, who for a long time lived in China and had reliable information about him. In the modern world, the interest in China is largely related to the wide propaganda of traditional martial arts, the growth of the popularity of the ideas of Tibetan Buddhism in the environment of educated Europeans and with the wide distribution of some cultural phenomena like traditional horoscopes or fortune telling I-Jing. Russian readers will be interested in a journey through the cities and the weary of the neighboring country and for other reasons: hardly every day, meeting with the Chinese in the markets and in transport, in our time we have to check your life with an oriental horoscope, we do not know much about What they live, what are proud and what these people are ashamed. But there was a time when Russia and China tied a much closer relationship - the history of Dalian (far), Lyushun (Port Arthur) and Harbin of this evidence. And, although in China there are a lot of those who equate the years when Russia has owned the cities in the Liaodong Peninsula under the rental agreement, to the Japanese occupation, there are those who under the museum arches carefully keeps the memory of the Person Cruiser & Quot, Varyag & Quot, and Covering Boats & Quot, Korean & Quot ,. They remember our history, considering it an integral part of their part, and today we will open this book to better know the history of the Middle Kingdom, captured in nature, architecture, music and customs of the most famous places of the Motherland of Tea, Silk and Porcelain