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The Bund Tunnel, Shanghai, China
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Near the Nanjing Road intersection stands what is currently the only bronze statue along the Bund. It is a statue Chen Yi, the first Communist mayor Shanghai. At the northern end The Bund, along the riverfront, is Huangpu Park, in which is situated the Monument to the People's Heroes - a tall, abstract concrete tower which is a memorial for the those who died during the revolutionary struggle Shanghai dating back to the Opium Wars.
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.
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