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Strangers in a strange land: being foreign in China

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What's Hanification?

Alec: I think there is this idea within China that if you enter China as a quote-unquote foreigner outsider or are sort of co-opted into the Chinese emperor. As it expands and sort of amalgamated in then I think the idea is that you change we don't change that's what goes. Alec: In Yuanan province is in Quimming the capital of that province that I saw the most bizarre thing that I thought I've ever seen in my life which is an ethnic minority theme park. He says they had actual members of these ethnic minorities living in the park like a zoo. It was kind of voyeuristic, he adds; some of them just dress all

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