As luo yan, a producer and former film star, walks through what appears to be 1880s Shanghai, the smokestacks of Lin-yi, a grimy city some 6ookm from China's glitzy business metropolis, are visible across the river. She has rebuilt the historic city for her film "Merchant of Shanghai", based on the life of Silas Hardoon, a real-estate tycoon, in this industrial centre in Shandong province. "It felt like too much work to cgi the whole thing," Ms Luo explains.
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