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At dawn, the village of Lizu in Yiwu, East China’s Zhejiang Province, is often awakened by three sounds: the hissing of coffee machines, the crackle of packing tape sealing parcels, and the cheerful ...

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Beyond or beneath the theatrics there is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that ...