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Joe Steinbring

Suzhou

A garden hall with upswept eaves and latticed windows reflected in a still green pond.
A hall in the Lingering Garden, reflected in its pond.2018 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring
Static offline map showing Suzhou in China with a location pin.

The stop after Beijing was Suzhou, an hour by bus from Shanghai’s airport. On the morning of November 6, 2018, I walked through the Lingering Garden — halls, ponds, moon gates, and paths of patterned pebbles between the bamboo — and the rest of the day was the old town: a boat along the canals past houses built right down to the water, then a flagstone street of shops behind them. In the afternoon we carried on to Wuxi.

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  • A pebble-patterned path between bamboo and low railings leading to a round moon gate.

    The pebble path to a moon gate in the Lingering Garden.

    2018 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • Whitewashed houses with tiled roofs and wooden balconies rise straight out of a canal.

    Along the canals by boat, houses standing straight out of the water.

    2018 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

  • A wide flagstone street between shopfronts and awnings, with people walking away.

    A flagstone street of shops in the old town.

    2018 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring

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