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Entertainment: Drama boosts palace visits

The online costume drama Story of Yanxi Palace wrapped up on Monday. The series centered around concubines in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). It was viewed 13.3 billion times online. The drama also boosted the number of visitors to the Yanxi Palace in the Palace Museum in Beijing, where the plot was set. Many of the visitors came to see the venue where concubine Ling, the hero of the drama, lived.

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