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East Lake, Shaoxing
Jin Minghua Chinese
Not on view
This haunting landscape of East Lake in Shaoxing, in southeast China, seems to present its mountainous shores bathed in moonlight. The watery reflections of the deeply creviced cliffs and pleasure boats intensify the scene’s mystic allure. The faint blue and pink tints on the rocks seem to simulate a black-lacquered surface decorated with mother-of-pearl inlay.
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