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A taste of Spring in Nanjing

March 16th 2010
The city of Nanjing is an ancient walled-city (at over 33km in length, are the longest the world has ever seen) containing old universities and rests on the banks of the Yangtze. It has been the capital of China several times in the last 2000 years from the early Ming dynasty (the name literally means “south capital”, to Beijing’s “north capital”) to the most recent during the rule of R ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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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