FOR MANY Chinese people,September 23,1993,is me-morable only as one of the days on which China was going through a last.moment bidding com-petition with five other countries to host the 2000 Olympic Games.Few were awa...FOR MANY Chinese people,September 23,1993,is me-morable only as one of the days on which China was going through a last.moment bidding com-petition with five other countries to host the 2000 Olympic Games.Few were aware that on this same day China and Britain rivals for the Olympic bid were getting together in Markit,a small county on the westerm border of the Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang to do a crossing of the great Sea of Death.展开更多
文摘FOR MANY Chinese people,September 23,1993,is me-morable only as one of the days on which China was going through a last.moment bidding com-petition with five other countries to host the 2000 Olympic Games.Few were aware that on this same day China and Britain rivals for the Olympic bid were getting together in Markit,a small county on the westerm border of the Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang to do a crossing of the great Sea of Death.
