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The Chinese Eastern Railway

On a clear, hard morning in the autumn of 1903, a train came down off the plateau west of Harbin and out onto the…

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How Harbin Became China’s Ice City

Every winter, workers on the frozen Songhua River at Harbin cut the ice into heavy blocks. Within weeks those blocks become lit castles, towers…

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