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TIL Shanghai's waterfront has 26 various buildings of different architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and the Renaissance built under British control. Asia's leading cosmopolitan and thriving financial center, all tenants on the Bund were purged in 1949

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