A Walk Along The Bund, Shanghai
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The Bund, or Wai Tan in Chinese, is a waterfront strip in central Shanghai. It is within the former Shanghai International Settlement, and so all the buildings there have a grand colonial feeling, right across the river from the Pudong district, with some of the most modern and radical skyscrapers you’ll see.
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Associate Professor James Leibold (Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)
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