The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal
Shanghai
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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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Site of First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
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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The Kiev
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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Tianjin
The Five Great Avenues: The 1920s Foreign Concession area
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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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Tianjin: Ancient Culture Avenue
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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: Italian District - The Former Italian Concession
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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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The Great Wall at Jinshanling
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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Beijing
Beijing: National Museum - Ancient treasures
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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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Beijing: National Museum - The Road of Rejuvenation
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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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Beijing: Tiananmen Square
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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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Kazakhstan
