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Why China is Called China

China is the appellation of our country given by foreigners. The porcelain china is the transliteration of the place name Changnan, which was the old name for the porcelain town of today’s Jingdezhen (Jingde Town). In the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), people built their cave-houses and cut logs to make pottery. And in the Tang [...]

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The Imperial Palace and The Great Wall

  The imperial Palace and the Great Wall, the two world-famous scenic spots, are know to all a must tourist destination for people visiting Beijing..   The Imperial Palace was originally called the Purple Forbidden City. It was the royal palace of the Ming Dynasties, the last two feudal dynasties in China. From east to [...]

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Chinese Leader Mao Zedong / Part I

   Mao Zedong is held in high reagrd in China as a great Marxian, proletarian revolutionist, strategist and theoretician who drove out the aggression of Japanese imperialism, finalized the involuted situation of Chinese Civil War and eventually transformed the country into a major power through his policies. Mao Zedong was born into a farmer’s family [...]

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