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Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

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Under the ancient city walls of Tianxin Pavilion in Changsha, Hunan province, 26-year-old Ghanaian student Ako Nai Emmanuella Daniella bent down to touch weathered bricks engraved with Chinese ...