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  Nanjing Museum, Nanjing Attractions, Jiangsu Travel
Covering an area of 12.9 hectare, Nanjing Museum is situated inside the Zhongshan Gate of the city from which it takes its name.
Nanjing Museum is notable for holding special subject lectures.
Nanjing Museum has been regarded as one of the most advanced and popular among museums of its class in China, and an important educational base for students.
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  Nanjing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nanjing, with a total area of 6,598 km², is situated in the largest economic zone of China, the Yangtze River Delta, which is part of the downstream Yangtze River drainage basin.
Nanjing was the capital of the Taiping Kingdom in the mid-19th century, being renamed as Tianjing(天京) (lit.
Nanjing Museum, formerly known as National Central Museum under the KMT ruling, is the first modern museum and remains as one of leading museums in China.
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Nanjing has an extremely rich and complex history, derived from its position as a political and economic center for the agriculturally rich southeast China region.
Nanjing, is the capital of Jiangsu Province in the southeast on the south bank of the Yangzi River.
Nanjing is hot and humid in summer, considered one of China's four "furnace cities." Winters are cold, with frequent rain or drizzle and low visibility.
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 Vacation in Nanjing China with Asian Vacations, Inc.
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province which is developed in economy in China and an important central city on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Nanjing, literally means the south capital, lies in the southwest part of Jiangsu Province, south of the Yangtze River.
Nanjing is known throughout China as one of the three "furnaces of the earth" (the other two being Wuhan and Chongqing).
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 chinacity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nanjing, an ancient metropolis of six different dynasties, is a city with mountains, waters and green trees.
Nanjing took shape at the confluence of the Yangtse river and Qinhuaihe rivers.
The modern new Nanjing is the economic and cultural center in the lower reaches of the Yangtse River.
www.zjj.gov.cn /english/chinacity/Nanjing.htm   (357 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Nanjing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yet in 1928, the Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-Shek again established Nanjing as the capital of China, as opposed to a government in Beijing led by northern warlords and an alternate government in Wuhan led by Wang Jingwei.
Nanjing University (南京大学, 南京大學, Pinyin: NánjÄ«ng Dà xué; colloquially 南大, Pinyin NándÃ) is one of the oldest higher learning institutions in the world and became the first modern Chinese university in the early 1920s.
Nanjing Normal University (NNU, Pinyin: Nánjīng Shīfàn Dàxué, Simplified Chinese: 南京师范大学;), colloquially Nan Shi Da (Pinyin: Nán Shī Dà, Simplified Chinese: 南师大;) is a university located in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
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 Welcom to Joanna Nanjing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
During the Tang and Song periods, Nanjing rivalled nearby Hangzhou as the wealthiest city in the country, until in 1368 the first emperor of the Ming dynasty decided to establish it as the capital of all China.
For centuries thereafter, although Nanjing's claims to be the capital would be usurped by the heavily northern-based Qing dynasty, anti-authoritarian movements always associated themselves with movements to restore the old capital.
Nanjing Lukou Airport lies literally in the middle of rice paddies 42km to the southeast of the city.
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 Nanjing Museum
Xuzhou Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Han Dynasty
The predecessor of Nanjing Museum was the preparatory department of the National Museum, which established in 1933, under the purpose of Mr.
Nanjing Museum, subordinating by Ministry of Education at that time, was the comprehensive large-scale museum, which followed example of the first class museum of American and Europe at that time. 
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 Gallery - Nanjing City
Nanjing is the provincial capital of Jiangsu and has a population of 5 million.
Due to its strategic location, Nanjing was the Capital of China in different times and also it was the battlefield in many wars.
Nanjing is a beautiful city with plenty of trees alongside the boulevards.
www.index-china-travel.com /g-nanjing.html   (211 words)

  
 Young Nanjing Museum Tells Old Story - Science - RedOrbit
The museum, affiliated with the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, focuses on invertebrates and palaeobotany and features tiny fossils often hard to discern without the aid of a microscope.
The region of Nanjing itself is a natural museum of natural history." Elsewhere in South China, he said, the strata of some geological eras are missing, while the whole of northern China lacks the strata from the late Ordovician (488 to 444 million years ago) down.
What is more important, he said, the museum "provides a platform on which the palaeontologists could communicate with the public." In its first three days, three of the institute's academicians of CAS, all famed palaeontologists or geologists in the world, personally guided the visitors and gave them instructions.
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 Nanjing Tour in Roamntic China Travel.
Nanjing took shape at the confluence of the Changjiang (Yangtse) and Qinhuaihe rivers.
In modern Nanjing there are some 40 universities and colleges and more than 300 scientific research institutes, several art troupes and a theatre for kunqu opera, from which about 100 modern operas in China derived.
Nanjing Library is the third biggest library in China in terms of its collection.
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 NANJING - The Internet Travel and Hotel Guide
Nanjing was the old capital in the south (hence its name which means 'South Capital').
Nanjing was the center of the Taiping rebellion.
After having captured Nanjing in 1356 and Beijing in 1368 and overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu took the name Hong Wu and established Nanjing as the new capital of the new Ming Dynasty.
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 Nanjing Museum
The Museum was moved to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces after the breakout of the Anti-Japanese War and back to Nanjing in 1946.
More than 415,000 cultural relics, among which 718 pieces are of the first grade, are housed in the Nanjing Museum, arranged by date from the Neolithic Age to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, including excavations, historical relics, revolutionary relics, folk relics, paintings, crafts, stone inscriptions, documents and foreign relics.
Some of the collections are from other museums and research institutions, some are from the temporary imperial palaces in Rehe and Fengtian, some are purchased from or donated by foreign friends, and others are relics excavated mostly after the liberation.
www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_museum/2003-09/24/content_29859.htm   (407 words)

  
 Nanjing Massacre Memorial and Museum Pictures and travel information - China Travel Attraction
The site of the Memorial of the Nanjing Massacre (datusha jinianguan) is the location of the massacre by Japanese invaders in 1937, and the mass grave of the Chinese who were killed during the atrocities.
The Museum documents the Japanese invasion via graphic pictures, a viewing hall and a display of the furniture that was used during the signing of the Japanese surrender.
Nanjing residents greeted the Japanese claims with great dismay and distress and regard them as a personal affront.
www.muztagh.com /china-attraction/nanjing/nanjing-massacre-museum.htm   (195 words)

  
 Nanjing Massacre
Nanjing Massacre exhibition to be shown in Italy
The Memorial Hall for Compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Forces of Aggression is located in the southwestern corner of Nanjing known as Jiangdongmen, which used to be one of the execution grounds and mass burial places of the cruel holocaust.
Copyright (c) 2005 The memorial hall of the victims in Nanjing massacre by Japanese invaders.
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 Nanjing travel planning, Nanjing tours designing and booking, Nanjing hotels and tickets booking made easy on line! ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Lying on the Yangtze River, Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province and one of the ancient capitals of China.
Nanjing was settled 6,000 years ago and was constructed as a walled city in 229.
In 1895, Nanjing was taken over by the Taiping rebels and declared as the capital of The Kingdom of Heavenly Peace.
www.chinaonyourmind.com /chinatravel/chinacity/nanjing.html   (1073 words)

  
 preetamrai.com )-> the dog of tall tales -> nanjing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
From Shanghai I took the train to Nanjing, passed the three hour journey playing with the little kid sitting next to me, amusing her with my origami dragons.
Nanjing served as the capital during the Ming dynasty and several Ming tombs are located here.
The museum was having an exhibition of Tibetean relics and gems.
tlcweb.np.edu.sg /melstudio/rps/taless/nanjing_tales.htm   (338 words)

  
 Vacation in Nanjing China with Asian Vacations, Inc.
Sun Yat-sen died in Beijing in 1925, and was buried in 1929 in Nanjing at the southern foot of Mao Mountain, the second highest peak of the Zijin Mountain.
The city of Nanjing has been known as "Qinhuai of ten li (5km) long and capitals of six dynasties." The Qinhuai River runs through Nanjing and divided the city into the Inner River and the Outer River.
When Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty chose Nanjing as his capital, Mochou Lake was built as the residential place for his close minister Xuda, a very powerful and influential figure in the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
www.vacationsinchina.com /Nanjing_attractions.htm   (3970 words)

  
 Museum for Nanjing Massacre to open to public for free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As the first museum in China commemorating the War of Resistance Against Japan from 1937 to 1945, the museum has received over 8 million visitors from home and abroad since its founding in 1985.
On Dec. 13 every year, the anniversary set for victims of the Nanjing Massacre, the museum is open to the public for free.
In 1997, the museum was named as an educational base of patriotism by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and it was open to primary and middle school students for free.
english.peopledaily.com.cn /200402/25/print20040225_135812.html   (316 words)

  
 ArtWorld CHINA - Nanjing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nanjing was capital of the mostly short-lived Southern Dynasties during the Nanbeizhao period (317-589), and of the Southern Tang dynasty (937-975).
In the 16th-17th centuries Nanjing was the leading city in the most vibrant and sophisticated part of the empire.
Leading members of the Nanjing school of painting active in the second half of the 17th century were renowned as the Eight Masters of Nanjing.
artworld.uea.ac.uk /teaching_modules/china/spatial/nanjing/welcome.html   (613 words)

  
 China Hotel - Hilton Hotel Nanjing China
The hotel rises high above the Eastern part of Nanjing, a city of five million inhabitants that is the capital of Jiangsu Province.
Nanjing is 284 km northwest of Shanghai by express train and freeway.
The famous Nanjing Museum is alongside the hotel whilst 200 meters away the historical Zhongshan Gate of the 600-year-old wall is the entrance to Nanjing from the highway linking Shanghai.
www.southtravels.com /asia/china/hiltonnanjing/index.html   (453 words)

  
 Nanjing - Welcome to Nanjing Museum
Nanjing took shape at the confluence of the Changjiang (Yangtse) and Qinhuaihe rivers.
Nanjing (known in the past as Jingling), lying on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Nanjing salted duck is a dish with over 400 years of history,
Nanjing has served as the capital of China during several historical periods, and is listed as one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China.
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 Nanjing Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
  Nanjing Museum was one of the earliest modern museums of China.
It comes from the arrangement committee of National Central Museum, proposed by Chinese renowned educationist Cai Yuanpei in 1933, director of Academy of Science at the time.
To promote the safekeeping of the collection, Museum constructed new storage of 3000 square meters, in addition to the original display area of about 2390 square meters, a brand new display hall of 2400 square meters accomplished too.
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 MSN Encarta - China
Also in Beijing are the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, the Museum of Chinese History, the China Art Gallery, and the Museum of Natural History.
The city is home to the Shanghai Museum, which contains one of China’s most important historic art collections; the Museum of Natural Sciences; and the museum of the Tomb of Lu Xun (Lu Xun was a 20th-century writer).
The Nanjing Museum in Jiangsu Province and the Shaanxi Provincial Museum in Xi’an are particularly renowned for their collections of archaeological treasures.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573055_8/China.html   (2165 words)

  
 At the Opening the Museum of Nanjing Massacre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Nanjing Massacre is a typical symbol of the atrocities committed during the war of aggression against China.
Around the same time, a mural painting of the Nanjing Massacre, which I was working on at the Student Center of Hosei University, was eventually banned by University authorities.
Nagano, said the "Nanjing massacre was a make believe story.' His remarks resulted in his dismissal after significant criticism from both in and out of Japan.
www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk /NanjingMassacre/NMGP.html   (537 words)

  
 NYU > Summer 2005 > Summer Study Abroad > Nanjing, China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
NYU in Nanjing's seven week summer program combines classroom study of Chinese language, history, and culture with activities and excursions to important cities such as Beijing, Chengde, Xi'an, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.
NYU in Nanjing is the ideal opportunity for students who want to improve their Chinese language skills, explore China, and experience Chinese culture firsthand.
All the participants of NYU in Nanjing summer program live in a foreign student dorm called Xiyuan at Nanjing University, where they have the option of a single or double room.
www.nyu.edu /fas/summer/nanjing/index.html   (715 words)

  
 Sheraton Nanjing Kingsley Hotel & Towers - Nanjing China Hotels - HotelCentralAsia.com
Lying on the banks of the mighty Yangtze River, Nanjing's very aptly named "Southern Capital" - reflects the dynamic and prosperous history of one of China's greatest cities.
The Sheraton Nanjing Kingsley Hotel and Towers honours the finest of this magnificent city.
With superb meeting facilities and event staff and an extraordinary selection of restaurants, the Sheraton Nanjing Kingsley Hotel and Towers is the ideal choice in Nanjing for business trips and vacations alike.
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 CCIS China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nanjing, a former Chinese capital and a city rich in history, is situated in a densely populated region which has long been the "breadbasket" of China.
Known as "Nanda," Nanjing University is ranked as one of the best comprehensive universities in China with a student body of over 18,000 Chinese students.
The program at Nanjing University offers students a chance to explore China and take language and culture courses at an introductory level.
www.ccisabroad.org /chinasemester.html   (1117 words)

  
 Massacre proof sent to Nanjing
New evidence of the Japanese atrocities committed in the Nanjing Massacre have been uncovered in diaries written by a military doctor in 1937 and 1938.
The diaries and some letters were sent anonymously to Zhu Chengshan, head of the Nanjing Massacre museum, who opened the package on Wednesday afternoon.
A museum official in Nanjing Thursday shows diaries written by a military doctor and letters written by senior officials of the then-ruling Kuomintang on the Japanese atrocities.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-08/20/content_367073.htm   (289 words)

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