Shanghai, August '06 
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transpixel Pudong New Area, Shanghai My Chinese teacher in Shanghai said such tall buildings overshadow human life, but I think they looks a bit sprightlier than the Chicago skyline transpixel
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transpixel Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai Looks kind of cool from afar, but cheap-looking up close, and I predict in 20 years this will be an ugly concrete relic transpixel
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transpixel Jinmao Tower, Shanghai This is the opposite: unprepossessing from afar, but neat-looking up close--naturally, my pictures of both are from the wrong distance transpixel
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Pudong New Area, Shanghai
My Chinese teacher in Shanghai said such tall buildings overshadow human life, but I think they looks a bit sprightlier than the Chicago skyline *
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Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai
Looks kind of cool from afar, but cheap-looking up close, and I predict in 20 years this will be an ugly concrete relic *
Viewed: 341 times.
Jinmao Tower, Shanghai
This is the opposite: unprepossessing from afar, but neat-looking up close--naturally, my pictures of both are from the wrong distance
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transpixel The Bund, Shanghai Shanghai's waterfront, temporarily obscured by a haze of harmonious socialism transpixel
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transpixel The Bund, Shanghai Being an idiot, at this time I was of course quenching my thirst from the high-90's heat with a martini and gin-soaked olive transpixel
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transpixel Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai Before I saw tons of people genuflecting and praying at Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian temples, I didn't really think of them as religions transpixel
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The Bund, Shanghai
Shanghai's waterfront, temporarily obscured by a haze of harmonious socialism *
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The Bund, Shanghai
Being an idiot, at this time I was of course quenching my thirst from the high-90's heat with a martini and gin-soaked olive *
Viewed: 322 times.
Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
Before I saw tons of people genuflecting and praying at Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian temples, I didn't really think of them as religions *
Viewed: 327 times.
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transpixel Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai Not really inspiring like a cathedral, but very soothing transpixel
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transpixel Yuyuan, Shanghai Surprisingly, water and trees not as much of a relief from the heat when there are 10,000 tourists there transpixel
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transpixel Yuyuan, Shanghai, But the "little dragon ball" dumplings they sell here are amazing, although the name just sounds wrong transpixel
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Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
Not really inspiring like a cathedral, but very soothing *
Viewed: 299 times.
Yuyuan, Shanghai
Surprisingly, water and trees not as much of a relief from the heat when there are 10,000 tourists there *
Viewed: 304 times.
Yuyuan, Shanghai,
But the "little dragon ball" dumplings they sell here are amazing, although the name just sounds wrong *
Viewed: 297 times.
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