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From MSNBC:<\/p>\n

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SONGJIANG, China – The ding-dong from the neo-Gothic church next door signals to Wu Yuqing that it’s time to wake up. On her way to the grocery store each day, she walks past the Cob Gate Fish & Chip shop and bronze statues of Winston Churchill, Florence Nightingale and William Shakespeare. Tall men decked out in the red uniforms of the Queens Guard nod hello.<\/p>\n

The place looks a lot like a small town on the Thames River, but Wu’s new home is actually in a suburb of Shanghai.<\/a><\/p>\n

As China’s modernization continues to pull hundreds of millions of people from farms to cities and suburbs<\/a>, a construction boom has given rise to a vast landscape of foreign-looking settlements. These real estate developments are the latest manifestation of the technique that has fueled China’s economic boom: making copies. [Full Text]<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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