Surrounded by geometry, balance and harmony, the Forbidden City was also the home of 100,000 Eunichs during the Ming Dynasty.

In my travels, I have not seen a complex that can match the Forbidden City in scale, detail, and harmony. Its first Western visitors must have been overwhelmed by the size and its inhabitants,(100,000 eunichs), as they were greeted in the Court of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

#82 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Tian'anmen Square, the world's largest city square)

September 1st 2007
The largest inner-city-square in the world, Tian'anmen Square (2,450ft long and 1,650ft wide), in the very heart of China's grand Capitol of Beijing, displays itself on the grandest scale. It is a Square created in recent history, but its foundations are in the heart of every Chinese citizen. With pride for their nation, each Chinese hopes, and makes it a mission, to stand on Tian'anmen's ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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