Stuck in Town This Holiday? There's Always the China Businessman Museum

Editor's Note: Asia Obscura's Andy Deemer has been kind enough to let us rummage through his archives for some of his best posts from his Beijing days. We're sharing them here to give you some inspiration to get out and explore our city if you're sticking around town over the holiday week.

It’s ugly, so you might not notice it. It’s in Sihui, so it’s hell to reach. It’s expensive, so who wants to enter.

And it’s also a lie.

The museum has nothing to do with Chinese businessmen. It’s all about Shanxi businessmen. Shopkeepers and traders from a small state, hundreds of miles away.

And as the maxim goes, “Wherever there are sparrows, there are bound to be Shanxi merchants.”

Right.

They traveled by camel…

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Photos: Andy Deemer