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Introducing Wūzhèn
In the northeast corner of Zhèjiāng, the town of Wūzhèn has been around since the late Tang dynasty, but was only recently painstakingly restored and resurrected as a tourist destination. Like Zhōuzhuāng and other places in southern Jiāngsū, Wūzhèn is a water town whose network of waterways and access to the Grand Canal once made it a prosperous place for its trade and production of silk. The ambitious restoration project recreates what Wūzhèn would have been like in the late Qing dynasty. Most residents still live in the old town, going about their daily lives and have (yet) to be chased out by developers.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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