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Nanjing Ming city walls

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September 10th 2012
In Nanjing I am staying in the purple palace hotel. My room is palatial and the breakfast buffet is fit for a palace. There is nothing particularly purple about the hotel. It called the purple palace because it is situated by the purple mountain. It is a mountain, but is green. I have seen different explanations for the name, that the rocks are purple or that the clouds over the mountain are purpl ... 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