Once booked, scout around for an alleyway marked Lane 355, off West Jianguo Road in the French Concession area of the city.

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Pamela skated at the new rink in the French concession.

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In the French Concession, the city's most popular residential district, bicycles and scooters careen through the winding tree-canopied streets, holding such new buzz boites as Dr. Wine and The Apartment.

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The trip included visits to the forbidden city and great wall of China in Beijing, the terra cotta warrior museum in Xi An and the Bund and French Concession in Shanghai.

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That is a victory for the French, and a concession by Germany.

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The French believe that the new Greek government needs a concession.

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Eleven years later, the Hua family leave their French Concession town house almost every Saturday to head to their weekend home in Zhaoxiang, a rural suburban township 22 miles west of Shanghai's city center, in the district of Qingpu.

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Poultry vendors in a market in Shanghai's former French Concession were concerned about the losses they faced after the cull orders came down Friday afternoon.

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At the Ruijin Hospital in the city's tree-lined, former French Concession area, patients with high fevers and other flu-like symptoms are handed disposable thermometers and masks and ushered in through separate entrances.

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