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Nanjing [b] is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China.The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of 6,600 km 2 (2,500 sq mi), and as of 2021 a population of 9,423,400. [6]
1952 - Nanjing College of Aviation Industry [2] and Wutaishan Sports Center founded. 1953 - Nanjing University of Science and Technology founded. [2] 1957 - Population: 1,419,000. [10] 1958 - Taiping Kingdom History Museum active. 1968 Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge constructed. [11] Nanjing Railway Station opens. 1988 December: Nanjing anti ...
The Nanjing Massacre [b] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [c]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The City Wall of Nanjing was designed by the Hongwu Emperor (1328–1398) after he founded the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and established Nanjing as the capital in 1368. To consolidate his sovereignty and defend the city against coastal pirates, he adopted the suggestions of advisor Zhu Sheng to build a higher city wall , to expand strategic ...
Nanjing's stone city walls as photographed in 1930. On November 20 the Chinese Army and teams of conscripted laborers began to hurriedly bolster Nanjing's defenses both inside and outside the city. [31] [34] Nanjing itself was surrounded by formidable stone walls stretching almost fifty kilometers (31 miles) around the entire city. [35]
Pages in category "History of Nanjing" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The city wall of Nanjing was built from 1360 to 1386 under the founder of the Ming dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang was crowned Emperor, and made Nanjing his capital. The southern and eastern sections of the old city wall from the Tang dynasty were incorporated into the new wall. The northern and eastern ...
Chart of Chinese progress from a US wartime pamphlet The Bund in Shanghai in the 1930s. The Nanjing decade (also Nanking decade, Chinese: 南京十年; pinyin: Nánjīng shí nián, or the Golden decade, Chinese: 黃金十年; pinyin: Huángjīn shí nián) is an informal name for the decade from 1927 (or 1928) to 1937 in the Republic of China.