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    Jamboree of Gadgets

    Aug 20, 2020 4 minutes
    By Yuan Yuan
    Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo

    For Zheng Jinlong, Leonardo da Vinci is more of a designer of military devices than a painter. The 32-year-old has an online shop on Taobao, an e-commerce platform owned by Alibaba, and has gained fame as an expert on ancient military models.

    He is known for making real-life models based on da Vinci’s designs for military devices. Some of his creations were also inspired by descriptions in ancient Chinese literary works and images in movies and TV series.

    Zheng, from Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province in south China, followed a routine life of going

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