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« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2014, 05:33:48 AM »


Daily life on the Grand Canal in the 1940s moves at a leisurely pace in this previously unpublished photograph.
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« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2014, 05:33:55 AM »


Zhouzhuang—a restored water town that promotes itself as the Venice of the Orient—draws more than 2.5 million sightseers a year.
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« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2014, 05:34:05 AM »


The load of bricks that each stickman carries weighs about 200 pounds. The porters, at Beixinqiao dock in Hangzhou, get the nickname from the handmade bamboo poles they sling across their backs to haul goods. Muscle power has been replaced by cranes and trucks along much of the canal.
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« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2014, 05:34:13 AM »


Fishermen work the Hai River in the shadow of the Ferris wheel in Tianjin. The Hai, which flows through Tianjin, fills a stretch of the canal that has been restored to attract tourists.
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