Raise the Red Lantern
August 4th 2010 Pingyao was a merchant town during the Ming dynasty and it is where China's first banks developed but the city became strapped for cash in the early twentieth century meaning no money for modernisation. If you can ignore the satellite dishes and mopeds effectively you step back in time when walking through the city gates and this living musuem is reaping the benefits of the tourists that want to
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