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The train station is in the newer business district; nearby is Asia’s third-tallest building, at 83 stories, which will often be pointed out to you.
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However, on sunny Saturdays and Sundays you may have to brave a crowd lining up at the lower terminal.
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The park is landscaped with lakes and gardens.
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In the park is the 1380 Zhenhai Tower, one of the city’s oldest buildings.
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Memorial Hall honors the founder of the Chinese Revolution, flanked by his heroic statue in copper.
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) began his political career in Canton.
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This enormous, modern version of a traditional Chinese building, with sweeping blue tile roofs, contains an auditorium big enough to seat 4,700 people.
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It was built in 1931 with contributions from overseas Chinese.
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The center of the park is the Five Rams Statue.
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It celebrates the founding of Guangzhou, when five spirits rode their goats down from the celestial realm to present the inhabitants of the city with their very first grains of rice.
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Guangzhou’s most important Buddhist monument is the 1,400-year-old Temple of the Six Banyan Trees (open 8am–5pm).
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During the spring and autumn festivals, when people traditionally seek out the hilltops, the throngs are so large you would be better advised to try another time.
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Although the banyan trees that once flourished here are now no more, the often-restored complex has remained a focus of local Buddhist activities.
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Golden Buddha statues in several of Buddha’s aspects adorn the temples, and overlooking them is the 17-story Flower Pagoda, a slender relic of the Song dynasty (a.d. 960–1279).
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In the early Middle Ages, Canton had a significant Muslim population as a result of its trade with the Middle East.
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This explains the presence in Guangzhou of the Huaisheng Mosque, reputed to be China’s oldest, and traditionally dated a.d. 627.
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Rebuilt in modern times, the mosque serves the small local community of Muslims.
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The modern minaret is known as the “Plain (or Naked) Pagoda,” in contrast to the Flower Pagoda of the Buddhist temple.
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Chen Jia Ci, the Chen Family Institute (open daily 8:30am–5pm), was built in the late 19th century to promote arts and crafts.
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Porcelain friezes adorn the rooftops and ridgepoles, telling the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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Inside is a collection of ceramics, carvings, and furniture.
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A former Confucian temple is presently the home of the historic National Peasant Movement Institute, where the Chinese Communist Party trained its leaders in the 1920s.
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Zhou Enlai also taught here.
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The atmosphere of 19th-century Canton is best evoked on Shamian Island, a haunting, nostalgic place in the Pearl River.
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At the upper terminus there is a four-level shopping center, the Peak Galleria, and the Peak Tower, which resembles an airport control tower and has shops, entertainment, and restaurants.
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This small formerly residential island, beautifully shaded by banyan trees, was the home of the closed community of the foreign colony in the era of “concessions. ”
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The bridges were barred by night with iron gates to keep the Chinese out.
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Its stately European-style buildings have since been restored, largely for use as government offices and foreign legations.
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The island also has Guangzhou’s first modern luxury resort hotel.
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A popular optional excursion is an hour’s detour to Guangzhou Zoo, founded in 1958.
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It houses more than 200 animal species, most famous of which is the giant panda, and has an imaginative monkey mountain behind a moat.
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Not to be missed is a visit to Guangzhou’s famous open-air market, Qing Ping.
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Guangzhou is famous for its food.
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The Cantonese love to eat and have the reputation of eating almost anything that walks on four legs.
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The market bears this out: Along with the usual ducks and chickens, you will see for sale snakes, dogs, bats, and sometimes monkeys — all are highly prized as delicacies.
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More pleasantly, you can browse among lanes of antiques, flowers, herbs, fruit, goldfish, songbirds, and more.
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A very popular day-trip from Guangzhou goes to Foshan, a city of nearly 300,000 people, renowned for its handicrafts for more than a thousand years.
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The Foshan Art Porcelain Factory has traditional designs, but also some attractive modern pieces.
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Foshan’s most outstanding artistic monument is Zu Miao, the Taoist Ancestral Temple, a Sung dynasty establishment rebuilt in the 14th century and well worth visiting.
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Constructed in wood, brick, stone, ceramic, and bronze, this is a work of extravagant beauty, uniting many ancient art forms.
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You can walk around the peak for impressive views of Hong Kong, the coastline, and the islands in 45 minutes on Lugard and Harlech roads.
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The complex contains the oldest wooden stage in China, used by the Wan Fu Tai Chinese opera.
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Literally created out of rural farmland, it was set up in the 1970s as the answer to Hong Kong.
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From a population of 20,000 it has grown into a metropolis of 2.5 million, with tightly clustered skyscrapers and some of China’s highest grossing industries.
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Because Shenzhen is much cheaper than Hong Kong, it is a popular weekend destination for Hong Kong’s Chinese, who come to relax, dine in its resorts, and play golf — Shenzhen hosted the World Cup of Golf in 1995.
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It is even becoming something of a commuter town — owning or renting an apartment here costs a fraction of what it would in Hong Kong.
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Shenzhen is easy to reach — the KCR commuter train runs throughout the day, the trip taking about 40 minutes.
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A Turbo Cat ferry makes a one-hour trip (7am–7pm) from Hong Kong’s Macau Ferry Terminal to Shekou on the Natau Peninsula, which is part of the economic zone.
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Shenzhen is a premier shopping center, and much cheaper than Hong Kong.
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It is known for its inexpensive (but well-made) knock-off designer goods.
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The view is especially effective at night.
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You can use your Hong Kong dollars here, so there’s no need to change currency.
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Some places take credit cards, but cash is better for bargaining.
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Shenzhen’s main tourist attractions are its enormous theme parks.
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There are also souvenir stands, benches for a rest, and perhaps Hong Kong’s last surviving rickshaws — however these are not for rides, but are a tourist photo opportunity.
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It contains elaborate replicas of China’s chief monuments in impressive detail, including a scaled-down version of the Great Wall.
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The 24 China Folk Culture Villages represent China’s ethnic variety; they feature craftspeople in traditional costumes along with folksong and dance performances.
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If you’re up to a climb, take the Mount Austin road to the Victoria Peak Gardens.
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These gardens used to belong to the governor’s mountain lodge, but the building was demolished by the Japanese during the occupation of Hong Kong.
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From the lower terminal of the Peak Tram it’s only a short walk to the former governor’s residence, Government House, now a museum.
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Across from the mansion, the Zoological and Botanical Gardens (gardens open daily 6am–10pm; zoo 6am–7pm; admission free) provide a welcome oasis amid the big-city pressures.
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In the very early morning the park is taken over by people doing tai-chi exercises.
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Both young and old go through ballet-like movements in slow motion to discipline the mind and body.
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The park’s zoo has a collection of weird and wonderful chattering jungle birds.
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The Western District is one of Hong Kong’s oldest neighborhoods, and its narrow streets hold a collection of fascinating traditional shops and enterprises.
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Opposite the Macau Ferry Terminal you’ll find the Western Market (open 10am–7pm).
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It is more interesting for its architecture than for its shopping; it’s situated in a four-story Edwardian building built in 1906.
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For an interesting glimpse of small and family-owned shops, walk along Bonham Strand East and West, Man Wa Lane, and Cleverly Street.
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The big green-and-white boat weaves its way through an ever-changing obstacle course of both large and small craft, and the soaring skyline of Hong Kong Island draws nearer.
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Hong Kong University’s campus is spread along Bonham Road.
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When it opened in 1912, the university had a total of 72 students.
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The University’s Fung Ping Shan Museum, 94 Bonham Road (open Monday–Saturday 9:30am–6pm, admission free) holds a significant collection of antiquities: bronzes, dating from 3000 b.c. , and ceramics, including Han Dynasty tomb pottery.
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It also has the world’s largest collection of Nestorian crosses from the Yuan Dynasty period.
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Take the Mid-Levels Escalator to Hollywood road, known for its antiques and curio shopping.
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Here the windows and open doors of the shops reveal an alluring selection of Asian furniture, carpets, carvings, tomb figures, porcelain, and bronze.
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Walk west along Hollywood Road until you come to Man Mo Temple, the island’s oldest house of worship (though the date of its founding is subject to dispute).
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Visitors entering the temple are confronted by a dense pall of smoke from all the burning joss sticks and the incense coils hanging from the ceiling (these will burn for as long as a month).
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The gold-plated sedan chairs on the left-hand side of the temple were once used for transporting the statues of the temple’s gods in religious processions.
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However, it reflects on a greater level both the desire of many Mayans to assimilate, as they still feel that is necessary for social mobility, and a belief among the general population that Mayans do not require a separate bill of rights as they are covered under the general rights already in the constitution (Warren 2002: 159, 172).
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Illiteracy rates are in fact correlated with the Mayan language itself: those who speak Spanish are more likely to be literate than those who speak Mayan alone (England 2003: 733).
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Therefore when considering the indigenous revitalization movements which began in 20th century Latin America, the impact of those indigenous languages on those movements and the nature of the identity of the peoples themselves is key.
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Nonetheless, in 2003 the legislature passed the law of national languages, which while reaffirming Spanish as the official language, recognizes the importance of indigenous languages as part of national identity and encourages their active promotion.
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Within the pan-Mayan movement, there remains a desire to maintain linguistic diversity: some view the reduction of their language to the status of "dialect" devalues their unique identity and place in the Mayan world; however, despite differences over standardization, the pan-Mayan movement itself is largely cohesive.
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In contrast, Colombian indigenous groups are divided to the extent that linguistic diversity is not only valued, but serves to split the population, both between groups and within groups themselves.
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An example is the Tukanoans: while considered a single “ethnic group”, they maintain 16 distinct language groups and practice linguistic exogamy, in which members of one language group must marry into another (Jackson 1995: 4).
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