China’s cities are big, fast, buzzing, crowded. Wide, choked highways slice through the maze of malls and alleys with brutal efficiency, girdle the city’s heart in a river of traffic. And yet, one of the things I love about them is the oases: the parks, the ancient pagodas, the rivers, the lakes….

Like the Jin River in Chengdu, reflecting the city today as it mirrored it two millennia ago.

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