Hints and tips:
...China: drastic measures China has taken the most authoritarian approach to cleaning up....
...Use a furniture touch-up pen, which you can buy in various colours, to cover small scratches.Use microfibre-glass cleaning cloths to ensure mirrors are streak-free and sparkling clean....
...There was a sentence-reduction system based on points earned through labour — work such as floor cleaning, food serving, teaching and approved study. Snitching also earned favourable treatment....
...“The architecture is constrained . . . so it leads, ironically, to a free territory.” Conservation liberates the architecture....
...A waiter ushers us across a swirling purple carpet to a window table and a splendid view of Hong Kong harbour and the pencil-thin high-rises crowding the slopes....
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