| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
Region : Grand Canal
|
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The canal runs between Beijing and Hangzhou.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
Region : Grand Canal
|
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The Grand Canal is the longest in the world.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dong Shan
|
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Dong Shan is a traditional village by Taihu Lake.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dong Shan
|
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Home made transport.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dong Shan
|
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The houses are very traditional.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dong Shan
|
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Quiet street.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dong Shan
|
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View of Taihu Lake through a stone bridge.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dong Shan
|
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Canal.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dong Shan
|
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Botanical garden.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Yixing
|
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Yixing is a town in the centre of China's pottery region.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Yixing
|
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Boat transport along the canals of Yixing.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Yixing
|
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Making dumplings.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Yixing
|
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Accident poster.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Yixing
|
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Old man at Yixing bus station.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Yixing
|
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People waiting in the bus station.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Yixing
|
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A group of people.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Yixing
Site / Event : Zhanggong
|
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The Zhanggong Caves have 72 caverns.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Yixing
Site / Event : Zhanggong
|
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The caves are lit with colourful lights.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Dingshu is a 5000 year old pottery town.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Ceramic street light.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Ceramics used for buildings.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
 |
The Pottery Museum.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Canalside pavillions.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Traditional canalside houses.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Canal wall with ceramic additions.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Painted and decorated ceramics outside a workshop.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Pots and ceramic pandas.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Ceramic shops.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Pottery in a yard.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Large ceramic pots.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Tea pot maker.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Making Purple Sands tea pots.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
Site / Event : Showroom
|
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Showroom with tables and stools.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
Site / Event : Showroom
|
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Ceramic sheep and flower shaped flask.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
Site / Event : Showroom
|
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Ceramic items.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
Site / Event : Showroom
|
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Beautiful and detailed ceramic artwork.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Blocks of clay being taken for the kilns.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Clay being added to the kilns.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Clay diggers on their way home.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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A busy canal.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Transporting ceramics by boat.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Barge carrying ceramics.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Fruit and vegetable sellers on a canal bridge.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Dingshu
|
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Ceramics waiting to be transported.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
|
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View over Nanjing, a former capital of China.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
|
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The city was settled 5000 years ago and became capital in the 3rd century.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
|
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The city was attacked by Europeans in 1842 and by Japan in 1937.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
|
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The city is on the Yangtse River.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Civil War Memorial
|
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Memorial commemorating the capture of Nanjing by the Communists in 1949.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Civil War Memorial
|
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The events of 1949 were a turning point in the Civil War.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Civil War Memorial
|
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Caligraphy Deng Xiao Ping.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : City Walls
|
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The City Walls are 33km long.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : City Walls
|
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Nanjing's city walls required 20 years to build.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : City Walls
|
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Each brick is inscribed with the details of its manufacture.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : City Walls
|
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The walls were built by 200,000 workers.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : City Walls
|
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The walls date from 1386.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : City Walls
|
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Zhonghua Gate is the largest in Nanjing and dates from 1386.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : Old City
|
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Street scene in the old city.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : Old City
|
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Transporting meat.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : Old City
|
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Girl eating bread.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
|
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The Bell Tower dates from 1388.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Drum Tower
|
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The Drum Tower dates from 1382.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Drum Tower
|
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Large drum in the interior cafe.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Hong Wu Palace
|
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The ruins of Hong Wu Palace, the model for the Imperial Palace in Beijing.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Hong Wu Palace
|
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The palace was destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864).
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Hong Wu Palace
|
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Stone carving.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Han Burial Suit
|
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Jade burial suit from the Han Dynasty (25 to 220).
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Han Burial Suit
|
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The burial suit is made from jade rectangles held together with silver thread.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Sun Yat Sen Tomb
|
 |
The entrance gateway to the Mausoleum of Sun Yat Sen.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Sun Yat Sen Tomb
|
 |
Sun Yat Sen was the first President of republican China.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Sun Yat Sen Tomb
|
 |
The tomb is reached via a staircase that is 323m long and 70m wide.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Sun Yat Sen Tomb
|
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The main tomb.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Sun Yat Sen Tomb
|
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Sun Yat Sen died in 1912.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Sun Yat Sen Tomb
|
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Children at the mausoleum.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
|
 |
The 34 storey Jingling Hotel.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
|
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The Taiping Museum is in a wooden building.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : Linggu Park
|
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Linggu Park is a large area with pagodas and temples.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : Linggu Park
Site / Event : Beamless Hall
|
 |
The Beamless Hall was built from brick and uses no wood.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : Linggu Park
Site / Event : Beamless Hall
|
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The hall was bult in 1381 by Hong Wu.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : Linggu Park
|
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View of the park.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : Linggu Park
|
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Linggu Pagoda is 60m high and was built in 1929 as a war memorial.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
District : Linggu Park
|
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View from the pagoda.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
|
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Small stream.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
|
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The hills overlooking the city.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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The Tomb of Hong Wu, first emperor of the Ming Dynasty who died in 1398.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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The tomb is reached via the avenue of animals.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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Stone elephant along the Avenue of Animals.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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Bactrian camel.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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Stone lion.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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The Avenue of Military and Political Figures.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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Military figure.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
 |
Mandarin.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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The tomb is reached via a long avenue.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
 |
Visitors.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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Stele.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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Small temple.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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Tortoise.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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The Soul Tower leads to the unexcavated tomb mound.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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The rear of the Soul Tower.
|
1988 |
| China |
State / Province : Jiangsu
City / Town : Nanjing
Site / Event : Tomb of Hong Wu
|
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The base of the overgrown tomb mound.
|
1988 |
were added from 1 February 2025.