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bund at dawn |
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the view from the top floor of the peace hotel (shanghai) |
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carnival in china |
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an opera in an open air festival (tongli) |
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dancing around bonfire |
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exuberant chinese youth dancing around the bonfire after the evening performance on the li river (yangshuo folk song festival) |
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field trip to museum |
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pupils led by their teacher in a field trip to the shanghai city planning museum |
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grandpa's birthday party |
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the family having a birthday party in the same room with us (xi'an) |
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history in bronze |
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bronze statues of a scene reminiscent of the early 1900s in beijing (beijing wongfujing street) |
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lama at prayer wheel |
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a tibetan lama turning a prayer wheel (yong he gong lama temple in beijing) |
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li river in the morning |
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a scene similar to that on the chinese 20 rmb bill (yangshuo) |
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lion king in the forbidden city |
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(beijing) |
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lonely narrow street |
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one of the many narrow alleys in the old city (tongli) |
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"lookie, lookie, one dollar" |
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peddlers outside the first emperor's tomb (xi'an) |
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mother china |
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an old lady in a farmhouse making her threads (yangshuo countryside) |
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oyster fisherman's home |
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(zhouzhuang) |
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people mountain people sea |
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a chinese expression describing the crowded condition (tongli) |
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prayers rise up to heaven |
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free religious expression in china (yong he gong lama temple in beijing) |
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queng singer |
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the singer of suzhou's local folk song, called queng song (suzhou) |
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shauh player |
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the player of a chinese woodwind musical instrument (suzhou) |
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tong orchestra |
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reproduced tong orchestra of 1600 years ago (xi'an) |
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walking around triple bridge |
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a good luck tradition for newlyweds in tongli |
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yangshuo's beauty over guilin's |
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a well-known historical poem proclaiming yangshuo's beauty (yangshuo) |
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