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Walking Inside My Chinese Emperor Timeline: How The Forbidden City Changed The Way I Saw History

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🌱 Elaine’s Notes When I first started learning about Chinese history (中国历史), one of the hardest things was trying to organise everything. There were so many dynasties (朝代). So many emperors (皇帝). So many names. Xia (夏). Shang (商). Zhou (周). Qin (秦). Han (汉). Tang (唐). Song (宋). Yuan (元). Ming (明). Qing (清). Then later: So I started creating my own Chinese emperor timeline (中国皇帝时间线). Forbidden City section: The Forbidden City (紫禁城) was one of the...

Growing Up With Beijing: The Panda That Followed Me Back After 11 Years 🐼

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🌱 Elaine’s Notes I don’t remember exactly what I expected when Dad first told me we were going to China. I was only nine years old. To me, Beijing was simply a place I had heard about. The capital of China. The city with the Great Wall. The city with a giant palace where emperors once lived. I didn’t understand dynasties. I didn’t understand thousands of years of history. I definitely wasn’t...

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