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Speaking of sharp contrasts - a couple of blocks from The Sanlitun Village - the brand new shopping mall built next to the infamous Sanlitun Yashow (a department store filled with counterfeit goods) - people live in old and severely worn buildings. But out in the open square of this shiny new mall, where pretty much every multinational brand available have a store of their own, kids can play in and around the huge installation of fountains, illuminated by a flat screen out of this world.

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Uploaded on August 22, 2009
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