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Raise the Red Lantern

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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 ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more