In a Chinese farmers market, stooges handed over either clean or dirty notes, then asked for 500g of an extra vegetable.

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Many young Chinese, she notes, are giving up on the ideal of owning a house before marriage and starting their lives together as renters.

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" Mr. Wagener notes that the 3, 000-year-old Chinese culture has a long and fabulous tradition of luxury, "an even more natural relationship to luxury than Europeans.

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