Indeed Xintiandi is being replicated in cities throughout China, both by Shui On, which has a similar project in Hangzhou, south-west of Shanghai, and by copycats, who have been caught photographing the original's features, down to the carvings above the lintels.

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Hebrew lettering was stenciled on the butcher shop window and engraved on the lintels of the small neighborhood synagogues, but nowhere else (other than at the cemetery) did one's eye chance to land on the alphabet of the prayer book rather than on the familiar letters of the native tongue employed all the time by practically everyone for every conceivable purpose, high or low.

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