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Are You Sitting Down? A Ming Dynasty Chair Just Sold for $16 Million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong—Nearly 10 Times Its Estimate

A centuries-old folding chair from China sold for a staggering $16 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong this past weekend—more than 10 times the chair’s low pre-sale estimate of $1.2 million. The piece, a ...
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Your Next Lawn Chair Is Coming From Vietnam, but It’s Still Kind of Chinese

THAI NGUYEN, Vietnam—In May, hundreds of workers at a furniture factory here got a nice surprise. Their Chinese bosses were giving them a nearly 45% raise. Factory owner Ren Li said so many other ...
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At $8.5 million, this could be the world’s most expensive camping chair

The world-record price for a camping chair more than doubled this week when Christie's Hong Kong sold a 17th Century Chinese Folding Horseshoe-Back Jiaoyi for HKD$65,975,000 (US$8,502,370), far ...