Want an authentic Chinese experience? Go to Australia.

Chinese tourists can tour dozens of amusement parks, cities, and villages featuring copied wonders around the world, from Eiffel Towers to the White House to the Manhattan skyline, without ever leaving the country. But with all these imitations of foreign wonders, what if they want to visit someplace archetypically Chinese?  Well, there’s always Australia. From ...

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Chinese tourists can tour dozens of amusement parks, cities, and villages featuring copied wonders around the world, from Eiffel Towers to the White House to the Manhattan skyline, without ever leaving the country. But with all these imitations of foreign wonders, what if they want to visit someplace archetypically Chinese? 

Chinese tourists can tour dozens of amusement parks, cities, and villages featuring copied wonders around the world, from Eiffel Towers to the White House to the Manhattan skyline, without ever leaving the country. But with all these imitations of foreign wonders, what if they want to visit someplace archetypically Chinese? 

Well, there’s always Australia. From CNN

"There will be no rides or rollercoasters or compulsory dragon motifs. Instead, the park will focus on China’s rich cultural offerings, including streets dedicated to Chinese tea and wine cultures, as well as traditional Chinese medicine.

"Whatever things that are usually connected with Chinese culture will be featured in the park," said ACTP spokesperson Amanda Li…

The park will include a nine-story pagoda, modeled after the Jing’an Temple in Shanghai, as well as gardens and courtyards in styles from different dynasties. "

Have fun with that, post-modernists.  Also I’ve been out of China for nearly a year, but if memory serves, Chinese wine culture is mixing a bottle of Great Wall with Sprite or Diet Coke. 

Isaac Stone Fish is a journalist and senior fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S-China Relations. He was formerly the Asia editor at Foreign Policy Magazine. Twitter: @isaacstonefish

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