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Letter From Chongqing
Hotpot eateries, bookshops, museums: Chongqing’s wartime bunkers get new lease of life
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Patrons of a bunker-turned-bookshop in Chongqing in south-western China.
ST PHOTO: AW CHENG WEI
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CHONGQING – People playing card games, watching television and catching up on the latest gossip are common scenes in neighbourhoods across China.
But in the south-western municipality of Chongqing, the country’s former wartime capital, such scenes can take place in an unusual setting: repurposed bomb shelters.
