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City Wall of Nanjing
The City Wall of Nanjing was designed by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (r.
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1368-1398) after he founded the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and established Nanjing as the capital. To consolidate his sovereignty and keep out invaders, he adopted the suggestions of advisor Zhu Sheng to build a higher city wall, to collect grain and to postpone the coronation. Building the wall took 21 years, and involved 200,000 laborers to move 7 million m³ of earth. The city wall is the most complete one in China, after decades of erosion, vandalism and destruction.
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Photo: Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture (1721) · Public domain · source
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