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Nanking

noun

A city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s. Synonym: Nanjing.

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"Nanking" Quotes from Famous Books

... Peking (technically Nei-ch'ing, "The Interior City," or King-ch'ing, "City of the Court") stands on the site of Taidu, and represents it. After the expulsion of the Mongols (1368) the new native Dynasty of Ming established their capital at Nanking. But this was found so inconvenient that the third sovereign of the Dynasty re- occupied Taidu or Cambaluc, the repairs of which began in 1409. He reduced it in size by cutting off nearly a third part of the city at the ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... themselves. The immediate losses of the British were nearly two hundred. Owing to the intense heat, they failed to bury the bodies of the Chinese. Pestilence and cholera broke out, and caused more serious losses than befell the main force sent against Nanking. On August 5, the British fleet appeared before Nanking, the second city of the empire. It was then that Minister Elepoo, the leader of the Chinese peace party, prevailed upon Emperor Taouk-Wang to give in. On August ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

Words linked to "Nanking" : Nanjing, urban center, PRC, metropolis, People's Republic of China, city, china, Red China, Cathay, Communist China, mainland China