West Lake Exposition

The West Lake Exposition was a world's fair held in 1929 around West Lake in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province in eastern China |China]. The event opened on 6 June 1929 and lasted 137 days. There were 14,760,000 items on display to the event's 20,000,000 visitors.
The main architect and designer was Liu Jipiao, who devoted six months to organizing and creating the Expo. Having studied art and architecture at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, Third [French Republic|France], he hoped that bringing western art and culture to the Chinese masses would help strengthen and modernize China.