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While many of China’s intangible heritage traditions are struggling to survive, recent commercialization efforts have helped to transform some into sustainable business enterprises by integrating them with tourism and product sales
China’s great philosophers, historians, and poets had one thing in common. They got up from their desk and hit the dusty trail.
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