Shenyang: In early 2011 I made two trips to see Shenyang,
briefly the capital of the Qing Dynasty before its conquest of the
Ming in the 1600s. Shenyang has its own forbidden city palace and the
tomb of Qing emperor Hong Taiji. On the day I arrived, a major hotel
burned due to fireworks, though nobody was killed the outside of the
building was charred all the way to the top.The 1930's era hotel I
stayed at was once the GHQ of the Japanese Occupation Army. After the
Communist takeover, a Mao statue was put up, and the charging army of
Chinese Communists appears to be directly attacking the hotel -
including one fetching woman who appeared to be shooting directly into
my window.
Statuary attacking my hotel, Shenyang
Shenyang Forbidden City Palace
Beiling Park, Tomb of emperor Hong Taiji
Charred remains of burned high-rise hotel
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