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day long. Suzhou is China’s Venice with numerous canals. It appeared
to have changed very little for several centuries except for the provi-
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fascinating with its size and history. It adjoins Tiananmen Square. The
Square must be at least ¾ mile long and ½ a mile across. The one build-
ing in it is where China’s Congress meets.

It was a short ride to the Great Wall. The Great Wall is an as-
tounding production. It averages probably 15 feet high and 12 feet wide.
The Wall goes over hills and mountains as though directed to do so re-
gardless of the terrain and does so for hundreds of miles.

In Xian, we visited the area where the hundreds of clay statues
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individual Chinese soldier. We stayed at a lovely hotel that was man-
aged by a Swedish company. Roy and Carole Stephen had been our
home teachers in Lafayette Ward. He was a Professor of Engineering at
Cal Berkeley and was on leave teaching at the University in Xian. This
university was the top technical school in China, comparable to MIT
and Cal Tech in the U.S. We invited them to join us for dinner, which
they appreciated because they lived on the local economy. While there,
we kidded that ours was the most distant visit with a home teacher in the
Church.
In Chunking, we saw the caves in the mountains that the Nation-
alist government had built to escape Japanese bombing in World War II.
The city at this location is several hundred feet above the Yangtze River.
The next day we boarded a boat and started downstream. There were
mountains on either side. I was astounded to see electrical and telephone
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ing to the wires. It staggers the imagination to think of the amount of
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in Tibet. The ships had to be tied up at night, which seemed wise from

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