Viral Chinese tourist spot stokes nostalgia with staged rural scenes

[BorneoPost] - 01/31/2025

XIAPU (Jan 31): A wizened farmer leads a buffalo through a misty copse of gnarled trees in eastern China, closely followed by a woman in a straw hat heaving pails of water. It is a tranquil image of rural Chinese life — except for the overhead whirr of a drone, the hiss of a smoke [...] The (…)



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