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This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Rizhao, in Shandong Province, is one of the hundreds of Chinese cities gearing up to really grow. The road into town is ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...