In the past 100 years the world has been turned upside down.
In November 1911, European moneymen were flocking to Beijing.
A revolution had just toppled China’s last emperor, and the newborn Republic of China was penniless.
It was desperate for European loans to keep it afloat.
A century on, European moneymen (and women) are back in Beijing. But they are not there to lend to China.
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