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Tiger, tiger! faking bright

He went on to argue that the local county is mountainous, unfit for farming. Tourism is a way out of poverty. County officials have designated it as a strategy to "feed and enliven" the people. "Tourism needs capital. But it needs creativity even more. The tiger could have been a spark."

Before I could laugh him off as insane, I walked down the memory lane to think of all the places I had visited. In one place near an old town in Yunnan, I - and a group of tourism scholars - were led to a mountainside with many totem poles that looked like 3,000 years old. We were told of the ancient civilizations that once flourished there.

Honestly, we were impressed. The whole place had some primitive power and beauty. Then, I turned to the Australian professor in our group: "Forgive my ignorance, but I've never heard of this place. It looks at least as impressive as Stonehenge."

"Well, I have to be honest, too. I haven't heard of it either, and I'm supposed to be an expert on this area," he whispered to me.

Our eyes were locked in a moment of epiphany as we burst out in one voice: "This is a theme park!"

There is nothing wrong with building a theme park that resembles a prehistoric monument, imaginary or real. But you have to inform the public.

On the contrary, the public has to play the sleuth. Another incident I remember involved a consumer who bought a terra-cotta soldier in a Beijing department store, priced 8,000 yuan. She sued the store when she found it was just an imitation. The store owner retorted: "Of course it's fake. Would a real one sell for only thousands? It would be priceless and it's against the law to trade relics of such importance."