When luxury meets history
By Fan Zhen | China Daily | Updated: 2013-07-27 08:31
After an 18-month makeover, The Astor Hotel Tianjin restores the 150-year-old national cultural heritage site to its full glory. Provided to China Daily Photos by Fan Zhen / China Daily |

In historic Tianjin's old British Concession, a hotel has proudly stood by the banks of the Haihe River for one-and-a-half centuries, and if its walls could talk, they would bring many legends to life. Fan Zhen reports.
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