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Peter Phillips is mugged by a gang of Praetorius-loving six-year-old girls in China

It's a huge change from his visit in 2000, when music with sacred words was still banned

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

We have read about the remarkable opening up of China in recent years: how many people live there and how good they are at business, perhaps finding the prospect of them rushing into our world rather daunting. However, a part of this process has been the sudden curiosity there for western art-forms.

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