#The Bund

[meta-holott]

2002 China, Shanghaï, The Bund, Pujiang Hotel (ex. Astor House Hotel)

[calpicowater]

Week 27.7/52: July 1st - July 7th 2024 | The Bund

my favourite skyline in the universe <3 i love i love i love

tried mixue!!!!! i love grape mochi ahhhh

so hot!! 44 degrees lmao

[tilbageidanmark]

Shanghai French Concession

[carbone14]

Des soldats du Corps des Volontaires de Shanghai (Shanghai Volunteer Corps - SVC) derrière une barricade sur le Boulevard du Bund – Bataille de Shanghai – Shanghai – Chine – Mi 1937

Photographe : Harrison Forman

©University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries Harrison Forman Collection - fr208216

©University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries Harrison Forman Collection - fr208217

[of-two-lands]

31°14'00.5"N 121°29'48.9"E

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www.oftwolands.com

[actaecon]

Shanghai

[theamazingplaces]

🏙️ Exploring Shanghai: A City of Contrasts! 🇨🇳✨

Shanghai is where history meets the future, and we’re taking you on a thrilling journey through its most iconic and hidden spots! 🏮🌆

From the iconic Bund skyline to the futuristic skyscrapers of the financial district, Shanghai is one of the world’s most exciting cities! 🚀🌆

🏙️ Breathtaking skyline views 🏛️ Ancient gardens & modern wonders

📺 Watch the full video now: https://youtu.be/_Q0jueJTAsU

Would you visit Shanghai? Let us know! 🚀

#ShanghaiTravel #AdventureAwaits #CityExploration #TravelTheWorld

[bricksxbooks]

I support this product idea on LEGO Ideas, and you should, too!

[lisagiaandrews]

The Bund Shanghai, by shanghaiprops

[meta-holott]

2002 China, Shanghaï, The Bund, Pujiang Hotel (ex. Astor House Hotel)

[good-lobster]

Saw this on youtube and really enjoyed the song and Rosalyn’s singing!

I hadn’t heard of the song before; it’s called “The Bund” (or “Shanghai Bund”) from a popular 1980’s Hong Kong television show with the same title.

[conatic]

beautiful pictures

The Bund kept Teddy occupied for hours as he watched everything that floated by and the lights of Shanghai slowly take over the dying glow of the sun.

[darkacademiaarchivist]

Christian, you have embarrassed me at the Ampelregierung for the last time I want. Another. Divorce.

[bodysnatch3r]

it is WAY too late for this to be coherent but i'm having a lot of thoughts, given the recent discussions in fandom, about bellara's two choices as well as her (very misplaced) guilt complex, and how i've seen interpretations of it as an inherently antisemitic plotline, the same way it is incontrovertibly an assimilationist/colonialist/anti-indigenous plotline painting reclamation of the past as a fallible, foolish affair (which is on bioware for even deciding to have indigenous and jewish cultures as the blueprint for elves in the first place with no rhyme or reason concerning what to use and what not to, fuck)

but there is a dimension that i've not seen explored yet, and that is the very specific anti-zionist jewish diasporic perspective, which actually pushes back against reclamation of a mythical homeland in favour of the here and the now.

the diasporic/doikayt jewish communities choose to embrace the identity of diasporism in ways that explicitly reject the alyiah, the "right of return" of the jewish people to palestine–now indissolubly connected to the colonialist, nationalist and ethnofascist project of the state of israel. it is particularly a political and religious response to the horror of zionism as colonial force, and pushes back against zionism's "negation of the diaspora" as a founding tenet of said colonialist project.

in this current climate, in this moment in history, as a doikayt jew who's been struggling with my very identity as a jew, as a diasporic jew, as an antizionist jew, as an observing jew, bellara's story resonated with me immensely. how do we reckon with a past that's used for evil? how do we reckon with the pain of our people when it is used to cause more pain in return? in bellara's words, "how do we stand against that?"

read through this lens, the archive plotline can attempt to answer these questions. both options place emphasis on how to carry the past into a more just future, and whether or not this is done with a clean slate, or through careful reassessment and consideration of what the past–including the mythic past, including the past we build our cultural identities on–can teach us. what to carry with us and what to let go of.

unfortunately, the spectre of bioware's writing choices hang over the writing regardless of this reading. the elves are not just jewish-coded, they're also heavily influenced by native peoples, for whom diaspora and the return of and to ancestral lands is a totally different, actually anticolonial issue. bioware wants to have their cake and eat it too; they want to bring two diametrically opposed views of diasporic culture into conversation, when anticolonial sentiment in judaism and anticolonial sentiment in native/indigenous cultures are incompatible to begin with.

[anamericaninhuaibei]

回到外滩了！

Back at the Bund!