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Thread: Which is the most renowned cultural city in China?
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[quote=GRIZ326,241154]China is in the people, JimmyB, not the historical sites. When the Jesuits came to China they re-wrote the bible to align with Chinese philosophy because they could not get any converts. Historian John Fairbanks wrote that this aggravated the feud between the Franciscans and the Jesuits and the Franciscans complained to the Pope. Fairbanks also wrote that the Chinese absorbed invading forces making them Chinese. Seeing a man entertain/teach his grandchildren to clean eels; seeing children practice their calligraphy at little desks on the sidewalks in the evening; seeing adults playing like children in the parks; hearing people singing in the morning; feeling the common joy of a people whose history was hard and harsh...all these things are China to me. If cultural erosion kills those attributes, the historic sites will lose all meaning even in a city such as Xi'an or Beijing. [/quote]
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