wrote an interesting post today on
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Great city profile in this week’s New Yorker by Peter Hessler. The city profiled is Lishui, a third-tier Chinese factory town in Zhejiang Province, with a population of around two hundred and fifty thousand. The city economy ranges from impressionist paintings done for export to gold farmers in the online game World of Warcraft. A few choice quotes (Disclosure: The New Yorker sends me PDFs of their China-related stories): Lishui’s copy-artists view on world art tastes Chen and Hu cou

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