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Datong and around Don't be put off by first impressions of contemporary DATONG, the second largest city in Shanxi Province, situated in the far north, near the border with Inner Mongolia. Amid the blasted landscape of modern industrial China-coalmines, power stations and a huge locomotive factory--are some marvellous ancient sites, remnants of the city's glory days as the capital city of two non-Han Chinese dynasties. The Turkic Toba people took advantage of the internal strife afflicting cent... Detail >> |
