Ming wall sculpture

Nanjing - Ming City Walls (second day)

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June 7th 2010
Met up with the people I hung out with the night before, and we all went to a local restaurant for lunch to sample some traditional Nanjing food. Fortunately, one of the party speaks fluent Mandarin, so ordering was so simple - we just left it to him. And he did us proud - I tried duck's blood, which is a Nanjing delicacy, but was disappointed: it didn't taste very strong, certainly not as stron ... 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