Heading from the Middle Kingdom to Middle Earth
By Wang Kaihao | China Daily | Updated: 2015-01-28 07:38
When New Zealand film icon Peter Jackson brought the final installment of his Hobbit trilogy - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - to China last week, he told a news conference in Beijing that his homeland is the perfect place to portray Middle Earth.
He didn't need to shoot anywhere else, he says.
And this geological appeal has been reshaping that nation's tourism landscape.
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