shenzhen china vacations Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/shenzhen-china-vacations Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:19:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Shenzhen Vacations http://toursmaps.com/shenzhen-vacations.html http://toursmaps.com/shenzhen-vacations.html#respond Sat, 01 Apr 2017 22:48:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=233279 SHENZHEN IN MODERN TIMES But the Shenzhen area was never really at the centre of Chinese history. Especially after the Opium Wars it was a backwater, not even a blip in the brassy glamour of its booming southern neighbour, Hong Kong. When we first visited Shenzhen in 1975, there was nothing there. As you walked over the sleepers of the railway bridge from Lowu, all you could see was a utilitarian railway station and a set of shabby military barracks. A quarter of a mile to the right was the tiny village of Lowu, a typical Cantonese village unchanged for

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