Until last week, no foreign tourist's trip to Beijing was complete without a trip to the Great Wall, a tour of the Forbidden City and a wander through Silk Alley, where knock-offs of famous brands of clothing and watches could be bought for a small fraction of the price of the real thing. Never mind that similar fakes could be bought for even less elsewhere in the city. Silk Alley traders could mark up their prices because their market had become such a magnet for what a local-government website sweepingly called "high nosed, yellow haired foreigners".
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