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The Bund Tunnel, Shanghai, China
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The Bund was famously featured in the novel Empire the Sun by British author J.G. Ballard, based on his experiences as a boy during the Japanese invasion and occupation. The book was later made into a film by Steven Spielberg.
The opening pages the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson are set on the Bund in November 1941, as civil order collapses under the threat Japanese invasion.
The Bund is a setting (and namesake) the Hong Kong television series The Bund (1980) and film Shanghai Grand (1996). The story both involve pre-World War II era gangsters competing for control the Bund.
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