Nanjing’s Wall: A Landscape Built from Names
Read Nanjing’s city wall through its irregular geography, layered gateways and the people recorded in its bricks.
Nanjing.
Read a former capital through its defensive landscape, contrasting memorials and examination culture.
Walls, hills and the Qinhuai
One Mountain, Two Visions of Authority
Compare Ming Xiaoling and the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum through their approaches, materials and different ideas of political remembrance.
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Qinhuai: The City Behind the Examination
Look beyond Qinhuai’s lanterns to the examination compound, surviving tower and objects that reveal the machinery of official ambition.
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Nanjing City Wall
A defensive system shaped by hills, water and the labour of named brickmakers.
Zhongshan / Purple Mountain
A shared mountain setting for two very different statements about political authority.
Qinhuai and the Examination Quarter
A riverside district where education, official ambition and urban commerce intersected.
Niushoushan
A contemporary Buddhist palace turns a former mining site into a landscape of devotion and architectural symbolism.
Photo credits and rights
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A framed view of the steps at Nanjing's Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.xiquinhosilva · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
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Ming-era defensive masonry at Nanjing's city wall.Mattias Hill · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
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The tree-lined approach to the Soul Tower at Ming Xiaoling in Nanjing.Chainwit. · CC BY 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
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The Qinhuai River near Fuzi Miao after dark, photographed in January 2024.Windmemories · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
