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In recent years, there seems to have been a near-constant stream of architecture news emanating from China. The fast pace of development in the world's most populous country is capturing the attention of people from all over the world, garnering reactions ranging from admiration to trepidation. However with China being so markedly different from the West, both culturally and politically, it's easy to lapse into oversimplifications and assumptions about the many changes that are taking place. So what's really going on in China, and why is it so important to architects?
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