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Right now China is very much about new butted up against old, development against static.

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Where the sea meets the land. There is no beach, and the coast is rocky. No wonder Deng Xiaoping was building bunkers here as a way-point in his proposed re-entry to the mainland. 

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A modern pagoda that was attached to the Island's equivalent of a banquet hall. 

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An abandoned fishing net in front of an abandoned pier.

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Farmers load a rice planting tractor. Some modern additions have helped increase yield.

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Rice before it is planted.

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Chinese Gothic. 

enough said.