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Beijing: Forbidden City

Principal sites of prehistoric and Shang China

Qin tomb: terra-cotta statues

Han dynasty funerary banner

Guanyin and bodhisattvas

Zhang Zeduan: Going up the River at Qingming Festival Time

Fogong Temple: timber pagoda

Beijing: Forbidden City

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