Published on Sunday, August 21, 2011 by Beth Roberts
As among the earliest civilizations on the planet, China has continuous recorded history of almost 4,000 years. Unfortunately, throughout a good deal of recent history, China continues to be isolationist and closed its borders to most outside nations. Nevertheless, in the 1970s and 1980s, China began to open its doors, and this culminated in the magnificent 2008 Oly...