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The original Shangrila, from James Hilton's novel The Lost Horizon, was a (fictional) hidden paradise whose inhabitants lived for centuries. Hilton (who never went to China) located his Shangri-La in the Kunlun mountains which form the border between Tibet and Xinjiang near the southern branch of the old Silk Road. The Hunza Valley in Pakistan claims to be the original Shangrila.
The Shang dynasty å (17th-11th cent. BCE), in Chinese sources also often called Yin æ®·, was a house ruling over a substantial part what is today northern China. From capital near the modern city of Anyang å®é½, Henan, the kings of the Shang exerted power and cultural influence on polities and statelets as far as south of the Yangtse River.