Nanjing City Wall

Nanjing

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May 15th 2009
I didn't stay in Nanjing for long because for historical content, Xi'an would be a better option. Anyway, as a Chinese, I gotta go to pay my respect to the WWII Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre. I lived in the YHA hostel near the Fuzimiao/Confucius Temple. The location is indeed really good but the Fuzimiao itself is not that impression. I spent an hour in the area just to ... 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