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Tengchong's history and culture are closely related to jade. Hundreds of jewelry shops and stalls cluster in the city's markets. [PHOTO BY LIU XIANGRUI/CHINA DAILY] According to the Tengchong Jewelry ...

Only available from Myanmar and traditionally cherished in imperial China, where quality green gemstones were believed to be a symbol of purity, jadeite has been less well known elsewhere – until now ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Much of the jadeite which delighted the 19th-century Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi and still pleases her modern ...