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Spring Festival fireworks in Beijing

February 14, 2010: Spring Festival fireworks in Beijing to celebrate the start of the Year of the Tiger, by Janek Zdzarski on See China.

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Oh boy! Proper by-the-people, for-the-people, unsupervised, unlicensed blow-yer-fingers-off fireworks! For an old limey in our kapok-wrapped Nanny-state, just heaven!

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