China's new rich are on a shopping spree in Britain – China News

www.telegraph.co.uk — It doesn't do nowadays to be an estate agent in the more fashionable parts of London with no working knowledge of feng shui. Understanding that the number four is unlucky in Chinese folklore and that a staircase sited directly behind the front door is similarly inauspicious – it means luck and prosperity will flow straight out of the house – can be the difference between closing or losing a sale.

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