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May 16, 2007 - Oriental Pearl Tower

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Yes, caught the Tower again. But this time I stood on the west side of the Huang Pu River,— the Bund. The architecture you see aside of the photo is the Hero Cenotaph  which was built to memorize who died during the wars since 1840.  It consists by 3 gun-shape parts, which implied the meaning of the main 3 historical periods in Shanghai’s history: Opium WarsMay 4th Movement of 1919; and China’s War of Liberation, as well as in China. Before 1949, there once was an garden called “huang pu garden”(黄埔公园) which was the first garden built in shanghai, in 1867.

It was my first time to discover this Cenotaph, and underneath there is a museum——Museum of the Bund’s History. Recently it is being redecorated. If you will come to visit shanghai someday, maybe its a choice. Museum is free for all. :)

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