So much has been said and written about contemporary China. A fifth of humanity lives within its boundaries, the country is undergoing extraordinarily fast mutations, its cities dwarf whatever idea Europeans might have of a metropolis and its economy is increasingly linked to ours. Yet, i doubt there are many people out there who could honestly pretend they understand or ‘know’ the ‘Middle Kingdom.’ In fact, the splendor and history of imperial China is probably clearer in most minds than the country as it is nowadays.
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