Video: China - The Dragon's Ascent: Two-Way Traffic

Summary:

China, the Hub of the East China’s Great Wall suggests a land that shut itself off from the world, yet travelers, ideas, inventions and goods have flowed in and out of China since ancient times. Buddhism and Islam entered via its fabled silk roads, and innovations in the arts and industrial sciences were exported from its cosmopolitan seaports to the centers of the known world.

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