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View to Pudong
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Bund Sightseeing Tunnel
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Bund Sightseeing Tunnel
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Chinese Opium War Era Cannon (1841) Shanghai History Museum
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PLA Enter Shangahi, 1049 Shanghai History Museum
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The restored tiny building used for the 1921 CPC Congress, plus a large modern museum.
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Building used for Congress Suitably rebuilt/rennovated
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Dutiful visitors
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Living room used for Congress
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The 13 attendees, Mao in the center
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Mao addresses the Congress
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A tip of the hat to Lenin
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A bronze Mao instructs his Comrades
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A subtly highlighted Mao
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Once the pride of the Soviet fleet, the aircraft carrier Kiev is now a theme pakr near Tianjin.
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The Kiev
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The vast flight deck
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Heavily armed "cruiser" superstructure
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The prow
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View back from near the prow
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Painting imagining the Kiev in its glory days
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Section of old hangar deck (Hangar deck seems to have been partioned up.)
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Exhibition area (chopped out of hangar deck?)
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Torpedo Room (?)
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Reimagined (??) crew quarters
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Re-imagined communications/navigation area With modern blinking lights
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Bridge
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Chinese aircraft carrier models in the souvenir shop
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Graham on the Bridge
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Graham at the Kiev
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Shoreside: Is Authentic Potemkin Village, Comrades!
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1922 Concert Hall
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Foreign children playing exotic game!
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1920s Sports Stadium
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1920s Sports Stadium
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Odd tribute to World Cup Trophy
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"Ancient Culture Avenue"
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"Ancient Culture Avenue"
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Ming era pavilion (~1420)
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Part of Ming era Temple of Heaven complex
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Tianjin Waterfront With view across to "Italian District"
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Marco Polo (?) This is near Marco Polo Square
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"Italian Style Town" + Scotch Whisky Shop (Hey, this weird foreign stuff is easy to get mixed up.)
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Is that Neptune?
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Italianesque Bridge
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I did a stiff three hour hike along the Great Wall at Jinshanling. This is a relatively remote, relatively quiet and very senic section of the wall.
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Monument to General who oversaw work on Great Wall
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Workers build the Great Wall Goats and Donkeys carried stones at the bottom, humans higher up
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Happy foreign tourists visit the Great Wall
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Graham at the Great Wall
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"Original", "unrestored" section
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Those are steep steps up!
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A steeper section
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Eagle shaped vessel 5000-3000 BC
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Goose-Shaped Bronzen Zun (~800 BC)
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Large bronze vessel (Shang 14th-11th c BC)
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Tortoiseshell with Inscriptions (16th-11th c BC)
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Shang Bronze head (16th-11th c BC)
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Jade Shroud (200bc - 0 AD)
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Charming Pottery Storyteller (1st-3rd c AD)
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Bronze Spear with hanging figures 2nd c BC to 0 AD
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Pottery Female Attendent (1st c BC)
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Pottery Roof Ornament (~1200 AD)
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Ming Dragon Vase
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Ming Phoenix Coronet (~1600)
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Porcelain vase (~1730)
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Tang Pottery Hunter (706 AD)
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Tang Tomb Guardian
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Painted Stone Horseman (25-220 AD)
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Ornate Bronze Vessel 8th-5th c BC
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Shang Bronze, 16th-11th c BC
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Don't worry, Lenin is here to help!
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A young Mao meets soldiers
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Japanese surrender ceremony. Showing the one in Nanjing (?), rather than the one on the USS Missouri
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Mao proclaims the People's Republic
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Nixon meets Mao
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Mr Xi sets the tone for the Modern Era
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Rejuvenation is proceeding well, comrades.
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Tiananmen Square, from the National Museum
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Tiananmen gate, from Tianmin Square
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Great Hall of the People
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Tianenmen "Huabiao" A marble column, plus a "cloud board"
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