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| Our visit to Shanghai corresponded with Chinese new year. As this time, people write wishes on ribbons and throw them into this tree in a Shanghai shopping mall.
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| Also within the shopping center is a garden hundreds of years old.
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| Bonsai in the garden. This one is at least a century old.
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| This stone is called a "jade" for its beauty; it is not made of jade.
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| More decorations for Chinese New Years.
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| Old style Chinese streets feature dozens of narrow shops. Behind these a new building is rising. Often the scaffolding is bamboo, though more steel is now being used than ten years ago.
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| A typical hole-in-the-wall shop.
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| Praying at New Years in the Temple of the Jade Buddha. The haze is incense burning.
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| Making a quilt lining by stretching mashed silk worm cocoons.
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| While walking on the Bund, Shanghai's portside park, this little boy was as curious about me as I of him.
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| The Chinese army enjoying an outing on Shanghai's Bund.
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| This enigmatic tree root was displayed in the lobby of our hotel.
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