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TASTE OTHER CULTURESCoupling insightful storytelling with spectacular and groundbreaking photographic techniques, Discovery Atlas: China Revealed brings to life the fascinating and complex contemporary life of this extraordinary country. (0) China, the oldest civilization on Earth, a land founded on extraordinary customs and ritual, celebrated in monuments without equal, preserved in thousands of years of learning. A country that is home to the greatest population on the planet - 1.3 billion people. A nation that is said to become the worlds next superpower. This is the story of the fastest-growing country on Earth, of the dreams and challenges driving its people, of individual struggle and triumph. How is the worlds largest communist state becoming its most powerful economy? Can this ancient civilization survive its breakneck journey into the future? And what is the price of this whirlwind of change? This is the story of the greatest transformation on Earth and of the people living in its heart. This is the story of life behind the Great Wall.words to chew:1/ breakneck:moving at very high speed; a breakneck pace 2/ a whirlwind of...:something that is as rapid as a whirlwind (1) Dawn, the Peoples Republic of China. Across the city of Shanghai, thousands gathered to practice the ancient art of TaiChi. Over a thousand miles away, Mongolian nomads prepare for the biggest horse race in the world. In Beijing, the Forbidden City opens its doors to tens of thousands of tourists. To the west, in Lanzhou steel works, No.5 furnace comes on line. And in the same moment, 12-year-old Jin Yang dreams of Olympic glory. Xiao Cui perfects a kungfu move five centuries old. And billionaire property tycoon Vincent Low sees a future of limitless opportunity. It is now predicted that the Chinese economy will become the largest in the world in little more than twenty years. China already consumes more than one third of the worlds steel and almost half of the worlds concrete.