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\nThe Ball rolls onwards<\/p>\n
…to Xi’an and deep into Han territory, heartland of the Chinese majority and the terracotta army.<\/p>\n
\nThe Ball rolls onwards<\/p>\n
To my surprise, we’ve found a hospitable, vibrant and cosmopolitan city full of life and colour. And, as always seems to be the case, the individual people are peace-loving and friendly, despite my preconceptions derived from my experiences with Uyghur<\/a> and Tibetan<\/a> folk. Perhaps it is only collectively that we discriminate so cruelly against one another.<\/p>\n Anyway, the mission for tomorrow is to secure boat tickets to Korea from the CITS, see the sculpted warriors, and catch our onward train to Beijing – for which we only have hard seat tickets. I pray that we can get upgrades to a sleeper carriage when we get on the train.<\/p>\n And (at 3.30am) so to bed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …to Xi’an and deep into Han territory, heartland of the Chinese majority and the terracotta army.<\/p>\n To my surprise, we’ve found a hospitable, vibrant and cosmopolitan city full of life and colour. And, as always seems to be the case, the individual people are peace-loving and friendly, despite my preconceptions derived from my experiences with Uyghur<\/a> and Tibetan<\/a> folk. Perhaps it is only collectively that we discriminate so cruelly against one another.<\/p>\n Anyway, the mission for tomorrow is to secure boat tickets to Korea from the CITS, see the sculpted warriors, and catch our onward train to Beijing – for which we only have hard seat tickets. I pray that we can get upgrades to a sleeper carriage when we get on the train.<\/p>\n And (at 3.30am) so to bed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"geo":{"latitude":34.2583350999999964869857649318873882293701171875,"longitude":108.928611799999998765997588634490966796875,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Ball rolls onwards<\/p>\n