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Drawing on experience: Shanghai

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02 August 2011 | By Tim Baynes
Shanghai Museum bodhisattva, China

A sketch from Shanghai. (Tim Baynes)

Shanghai, China

3/9/05

Buddha Stone, Northern Q: AD 550-577

Bodhisattva AD 960 Song

Saturday morning visiting the wonderful Chinese sculptures, furniture, jade and bronze works at the Shanghai Museum.

Museum itself is a great building surrounded by some great architecture. Apparently, Western architects would give eyeteeth to be here!

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Tim Baynes is a senior executive with the BBC who has recorded his impressions of more than 20 years of travel in Moleskine notebooks. Each week The Passport blog will bring you a new sketch from his collection.

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