In China’s rapidly developing capital, nothing is more evocative of the city's past than its many hutongs – laneway neighbourhoods that serve as oases of slow-paced tranquility.
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In a land five millennia old, Shanghai feels like it started yesterday. It is one of China’s most vibrant cities, heading places the rest of the country can only dream.
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