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As if to say,  "I am here to stay".  
   

As if to say, "I am here to stay".

Shanghai's new icon looms from every direction.
#73 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China, (Shanghai builds for the future.)

April 22nd 2007
World cities have unique displays of architectual icons and landmarks, that identify and suggest the character and reason for their existence, where one is associated with the other: Be it the Eifel Tower and Paris, the Brandenburg Gate and Berlin, the Capitol Building and Washington D.C., the Temple of Heaven and Beijing, New York and (once-again) the Empire State Building, the Acrapolis and Athe ... read more
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Chinese Flag For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
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