“Wenzhou people are as competitive on Sunday as every other day of the week.This city on the south-east coast is famous in China as a hardworking hive of capitalism. But it is also home to perhaps a million Christians.
“In most other Chinese cities the dominant buildings belong to the Communist Party, but in Wenzhou it's the churches which command attention; many of them as big as cathedrals
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