Chinese Archimage Phenomena

Bei Da Xue Yuan High school, Dongguan, Guangdong Province This is fake Beijing University gate in Dongguan, Guangdong (Canton) Province, which was is a local high school and called the coolest (niu) school gate by bloggers. This school advertises itself in relation with Beijing University and graduates from this school can go to Beijing University directly with exemption of college entry exams. The title of the school is “Bei Da Xue Yuan”, in which there are 3 same characters from Beijing University famous gate, “Bei Jing Da Xue”. Even the calligraphy is totally copied from the Beijing Univ. Beijing University, Beijing [via 163 and picasa ]

South China Mall , Dongguan , Guangdong Province, is so-called the biggest mall in the wolrd. The total land area is 430,000 sqm (4,628,500 sqf) and construction area is 890,000 sqm, with 8000 parking spots. The investment is over 2.5 billion RMB (0.4 billion USD). The construction launched in October 2002. According to many resources : "The South China Mall is the combination of tourism, cultural events, shopping, entertainment, sports, restaurants and hotel. There are 7 special theme districts: sunny and passionate Southern California and San Francisco , Fresh Amsterdam , High-class and romantic Parisian the Avenue des Champs-Élysées , world-famous canal town Venice , sensitive and beautiful Caribbean Sea , and adventurous rain forest ." It even has wiki here . [images via here , here , here and here ]